I can't be sure, but it might have something to do with the fact that we take money from working people and give it to non-working people. We subsidize inefficiency at every level of government. We attempt to make being poor as comfortable as possible (at everyone else's expense) and then wonder WTF when their numbers increase. Is that big of a mystery?
You think being poor is comfortable.
Being poor in America is a lot different than other places in the world. I grew up poor. I didn't know any different and we did the best we could with what we had. I'm sure it was harder on my parents but we weren't kids running around naked with pot bellies and flies all over us collecting water from puddles.
So you rationalize that being poor is no big deal because they arnt naked and starving?
So you rationalize that being poor is no big deal because they arnt naked and starving?
I rationalize being poor as a reality and that there will always be poor. I don't try to decieve myself about some utopia where there's no war, everyone's fed, everyone has houses and everyone has a fairy princess that grants them sandwiches and blow jobs whenever they please. I lived through it, prospered not at the cost of someone's sweat but my own. And as I said, being poor in America is upper middle class in many countries.
As a libertarian, what is your solution to taking care of the poor and making the poor responsible for taking care of themselves?
One must compare and contrast to understand.#1) We are not talking about other countries.
We're not talking about starting wars for no good reason.#2) Starting a war for no good reason is a problem
I'm saying some children have always gone to sleep hungry in this world and nothing will change that.#3) Are you saying children dont go to bed hungry in this country
If dirt floors is all people know, it doesn't suck. You think it sucks because you've lived in places without dirt floors. See how comparison and contrasting situations gives perspective and understanding?#4) How sure are you that eveyone has a house. Ever been in ones with dirt floors. I have and it sucks.
Alas, they don't exist, just like utopia doesn't exist.#5) Where can I get a fairy princess like that.
I think I answered this twice already. If you didn't get it by now, you won't after I explain it for the third time. See post #880.Are you actually trying to justify that one in seven americans is at the poverty level and thats ok because as long as they are not naked and starving we are better off than other counties.
You think being poor is comfortable.
If a Libertarian set the rules there would not be one in seven being poor because big business, government over spending, and fair traid would be kept in check. Not have a government whos policy is being set by the highest bidder.
poor people in the USA today are far more comfortable than the top 1% were in the era of my grandfather.
If a Libertarian set the rules there would not be one in seven being poor because big business, government over spending, and fair traid would be kept in check. Not have a government whos policy is being set by the highest bidder.
LOL, yep, a good libertarian you are, personal responsibility is not an issue. Better change your political leanings.
poor people in the USA today are far more comfortable than the top 1% were in the era of my grandfather.
So you are 100% in line with everything the conservative party does. If you are your a sheep.
an idiotic claim. less big business would mean everyone would be poorer. and since "poor" is based on income distribution (rather than the fact that the poor have luxuries today that top 1% people didn't have 30 years ago) there will always be plenty of poor even if poor means having a mercedes, and a plasma TV if the average person has 3 mercedes and three TVs
Libertarians want to be left alone and believe in personal responsibility. You believe in neither.
If a Libertarian set the rules there would not be one in seven being poor because big business, government over spending, and fair traid would be kept in check. Not have a government whos policy is being set by the highest bidder.
Where have I said that I dont believe in personal responsibility?
Libertarians want to be left alone and believe in personal responsibility. You believe in neither.
Your grandfather lived on the galapanos so that does not count
Being "left alone" is a very shallow understanding of the basic libertarian principle of noncoercion. Libertarians aspire to a minimal government that respects the fundamental liberty of al people. So it's not just about being left along, but ensuring the right to be free from coercive practices for all people.
Ender is one of the few true libertarians on these boards.
Libertarians don't believe in rules
Being "left alone" is a very shallow understanding of the basic libertarian principle of noncoercion. Libertarians aspire to a minimal government that respects the fundamental liberty of al people. So it's not just about being left along, but ensuring the right to be free from coercive practices for all people.
Ender is one of the few true libertarians on these boards.
Not less business. MORE. Just not to big to fail like BOA.
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