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Libertarian ideas in part responsible for economic meltdown?

October 24 2008 at 5:22 PM
Skepticus  (no login)

Any thoughts on the following?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/164502


 
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Re: Libertarian ideas in part responsible for economic meltdown?

October 25 2008, 9:00 AM 

I blame regulation.

 
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Re: Libertarian ideas in part responsible for economic meltdown?

October 25 2008, 11:21 PM 


I have a thought or two...

First off, it's completely retarded to blame libertarians when we have no real power. The U.S. is run by socialists (Republicrats) and has been for some time now. To claim that libertarians managed to grab enough power to fuck the economy is just plain dumb.

Secondly, libertarianism doesn't work piecemeal. You are either free or you aren't. We can't give some economic freedoms, while denying others, and then complain when the system collapses. Unless we are willing to try a complete laissez faire system, we can't blame libertarianism. I think that the real failure was not allowing the market to be free enough.

Cheers,
Paul

 
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Gay agenda

October 26 2008, 6:06 PM 

Its the gays... I blame the gays for their good taste, style and politeness Damn them for being so nice and increasing property values

 
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one question

October 26 2008, 4:24 PM 

Does the concentration of wealth entail the abuse of wealth? Seems this is a central question.

 
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Re: Libertarian ideas in part responsible for economic meltdown?

October 26 2008, 4:57 PM 

This is like when muslims and christians blame atheism for the world's problems.

 
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