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Re: [LUG] [OT] Libertarianism - was "Watching the results trickle in ..."

 

2009/6/16 Benjamin M. A'Lee <bma-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:48:23PM +0100, Mike Martin wrote:
>> IMNSO libertarianism is fine for those with the power, not so good for
>> the little guy, ie: most of us
>
> Libertarianism seems to consist of the belief that if everybody is just
> left to get along with things, and the government does as little as
> possible to regulate things and balance everything out, it’ll work out
> well for everybody and nobody will get screwed over.
>
> I’m not really convinced, for some reason.
>
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> Benjamin M. A’Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> “…a return to ’free’ competition means for the great mass of people a
> tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State.”
> — George Orwell, in a review of The Road to Serfdom (1944) by Friedrich Hayek
>

Your sig pretty much sums it up

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