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MrRodgers -> RE: Intelligent Human vs. Libertarian (6/19/2013 4:48:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
Lets see, they are against big government, federal funding for education, government paid for roads, and a bunch of other stuff.
I have a libertarian friend, who is constantly complaining about government spending on just about everything. Now, he is in the tax bracket that would have been hit with the tax increase when the Bush tax breaks ended.
When he talks about education being funded by the federal government, I suggest he put his three kids in private schools, there are two very good ones in town.
When he complains about federal money being spent on roads, I suggest he sell his car and walk, or ride a bus.
He complains about medicare funding and medicaid, but he will not buy private insurance for his parents except for supplemental policies to work with medicare.
When he complains about social security, which I receive, I remind him I paid into the system, never had a job that had a decent retirement plan, and have a nice retirement account that was set up after the injury that I was informed would eventually lead to me being disabled, so when I applied for disability, I started drawing off that account since it had a nice clause for just such a situation.
Basically he complains about all the services provided with tax money, yet feels that there is nothing wrong with using those services, even to the point about writing letters to the editor about the conditions of the highways, city streets, and the schools.
Sounds like a somewhat typical American. Greedy, ignorant, short-sighted and hypocritical. You do understand that there are no truths not discovered in the pursuit of a profit...correct ? I bet that is his world.
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