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| Source:NC Tea Party- Nancy Photenhauer a spokeswoman for the Koch Industries. |
From the NC Tea Party
What if Libertarians were in charge? That's sort of like asking what if the kids ran the house? Or if the inmates ran the prison? The mental patients ran the asylum? If this sounds insulting, then I'm getting through, because Libertarians or what's supposed to pass as a Libertarian today, are people who don't believe in authority, let alone government. And when someone is put in charge of something, they become an authority.
Libertarians today sound like the Right's version of the 1960s and 1970s antiestablishment Hippies. At least the Hippies put what money they had where their mouths were and set up their own communities and communes and moved away from society. Today's Libertarians take advantage of the government sponsored road, are protected by government law enforcement and the military, even send their kids to government schools, and pay the government the taxes that fund those government services.
Imagine what the Federal Government would look like, if you eliminated every Federal Department. Except Department of Defense, that would rarely do anything, because Libertarians are isolationists.
Department of State that would rarely talk to anyone, because again Libertarians are isolationists.
A Treasury Department that would just print American dollars. You really need a Federal department to do that?
Maybe a Justice Department, but again who would they be prosecuting? Libertarians are against the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
Libertarians also tend to be against the CIA. So where would the intelligence come from?
The Federal Government that they don't trust and believe in. Libertarians don't believe in Federal law enforcement, so if a murderer murders someone in Tennessee and makes their way up to let's say Ohio, who would go after that person?
Libertarians are also against things like labor laws, minimum wage, so we could return to the days of people making 30C and hour or back to child labor. People working in unsafe working conditions and making basically nothing working there.
That is the state of American libertarianism right now, not that government is too big, but that it even exists is a problem for them. They want a complete free society, but perhaps even in an anarchist sense. And perhaps they would prosecute people who abuse innocent people, but that the Federal Government just wouldn't have any role in it.
Imagine what the Federal Government would look like, if you eliminated every Federal Department. Except Department of Defense, that would rarely do anything, because Libertarians are isolationists.
Department of State that would rarely talk to anyone, because again Libertarians are isolationists.
A Treasury Department that would just print American dollars. You really need a Federal department to do that?
Maybe a Justice Department, but again who would they be prosecuting? Libertarians are against the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
Libertarians also tend to be against the CIA. So where would the intelligence come from?
The Federal Government that they don't trust and believe in. Libertarians don't believe in Federal law enforcement, so if a murderer murders someone in Tennessee and makes their way up to let's say Ohio, who would go after that person?
Libertarians are also against things like labor laws, minimum wage, so we could return to the days of people making 30C and hour or back to child labor. People working in unsafe working conditions and making basically nothing working there.
That is the state of American libertarianism right now, not that government is too big, but that it even exists is a problem for them. They want a complete free society, but perhaps even in an anarchist sense. And perhaps they would prosecute people who abuse innocent people, but that the Federal Government just wouldn't have any role in it.
As I blogged last week, Libertarians today and perhaps always don't sound Libertarian. But they sound like Anarchists, that government is incompetent and shouldn't really be doing anything. And ask questions like what can government do, that the private sector can't and again ask most Americans that question and they will name several things.
Today's Libertarians don't sound like believers in small government, but sound anti-government. Basically across the board. Or they wouldn't ask questions like, what can government do that the private sector can't, or what can government do better than the private sector.
I understand the need in limited government and as a Liberal is something I believe in myself. Which is also something that Gary Johnson the presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party also believes in. He's a Classical Liberal like myself. But more libertarian, where I'm liberal across the board. Governor Johnson is not looking to dismantle the Federal Government. But wants to reform it, so it's doing the things that only it should be doing and does well. Which is where libertarianism needs to move too, for them to ever be a major power in American politics.
I understand the need in limited government and as a Liberal is something I believe in myself. Which is also something that Gary Johnson the presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party also believes in. He's a Classical Liberal like myself. But more libertarian, where I'm liberal across the board. Governor Johnson is not looking to dismantle the Federal Government. But wants to reform it, so it's doing the things that only it should be doing and does well. Which is where libertarianism needs to move too, for them to ever be a major power in American politics.
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