FidelCatsro's Journal: libertarian

I will award 10 Euros to the first person to find me the first sane poor libertarian .. also they must know what it means totally and be actually poor , not I can't afford to fix my Porsche poor

How poor do you want?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

I know quite a large number of them- but they're mainly of the type "I can't fix any of the 50 chevys in my front yard or find a job, but somehow I can scam food stamps out of the government and pay for plenty of ammo for my gun" poor....

Well

[bethanie]

I guess because 10 Euros doesn't make it worth my time to even *think* of looking for one, that disqualifies me. :-)

....Bethanie....

yep

[blinder]

i'm the enemy, and oppressor. frankly, i like it. but, alas, today, i did nothing to oppress the poor. no, i just worked my tail off to support a non-functioning corrupt welfare system that favors sitting on your ass and not doing anything over working.

yeah... and i need to wash my porsche as well... its a terrible mess.

used to be....

[zogger]

... a paid up actual card carrying member of the Ls, both national and state. Even signed the pledge, "you will not initiate violence" and etc. Then they ran that pompous cretin Neal Boortz as their main speaker at the national convention and I quit, went to being a small l and started complaining. Then they chose by far the *wrong guy* to run for prez, the most milqued of toast, and started being wimpy with their national work, and it became obvious it had de-evolved (probably co-opted) into a front group

You know...

[Allen Zadr]

You really aught to podcast about it!

Do I count?

[rk]

Depends on what you define as "sane", I suppose, and I'm not poor now, but I was both poor and libertarian 12 years ago, as in poor enough to literally beat the sofa for change to get diapers for the kid.

Hehehe...

[eno2001]

Nice but a non-starter. I don't think it's possible to find such a beast. As much as most Libertarians talk about having pulled themselves up by their bootstraps I typically find that their bootstraps are gold plated. They usually have had far more opportunities from birth than I've ever had and don't seem to believe in the luck of just being born into a family that can provide those opporunities. The irritating thing about them is that they equate my situation (two relatively poor parents who worked th

whoops

[RM6f9]

I'm not provably sane: No Euros for me. I find most of the Libertarians ' claimed beliefs match more closely to mine than democans or republicrats, so lump me in with them if you must. I'm not poor, I have been both poor (an attitude) and broke (a financial condition, BIG difference)...

Howdy

[Robotron23]

Hi Fidel, its been awhile.

By the political compass, I'm a moderate libertarian - that is, I favour an NHS and state provided education, aswell as charity providing for foreign aid in its entirity. Relying on charity for all of soceity's ills, poverty and such, is (in contrast with Friedman's views)unrealistic. People simply aren't that generous. When I enter my city's centre I always buy a copy of the Big Issue - a magazine sold by the homeless, thus earning them money for food. This idea is fundamentally l