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Ironically, every single person that I personally know who has admitted to voting for Obama did so because of social issues...
For me, personally, I voted for Obama in 2008 and social issues had zero to do with it. But, as I thought in 2008, Obama is a center-right president, but to the left of McCain
Every country that has tried to have a system without a strong central government has ended up in anarchy or feudalism. I would challenge a libertarian to cite and example to the contrary.
Every country that has tried to have a system without a strong central government has ended up in anarchy or feudalism. I would challenge a libertarian to cite and example to the contrary.
Would you rather have anarchy or total control and mass murder by government like what Mao and Hitler did? I'd rather be free and take my chances than have every aspect of my life controlled. You can just go to prison if you want to live like that. Or you could just kill yourself because what would be the point of living in the first place if you can't do things you want to do?
Libertarians are not in power making these decisions. Where are your complaints about those who are making the decisions to close down the roads?
WTH are Libertarians being targeted in this thread? It makes no sense, other than a gasp at bashing the empowered thought of constitutional awareness. This thread is yet another ridiculous bit of tripe.
Every country that has tried to have a system without a strong central government has ended up in anarchy or feudalism. I would challenge a libertarian to cite and example to the contrary.
Every country that had an over powered centralized government has ended in disaster. We, the USA, are the only federal democracy in the history of man, and we became the greatest nation in history based on the premise that all men are created equal, and freedom is a God given right.
I would challenge any socialist, communist, totalitarian, fascist, to cite an example to the contrary!
Progressive is just a word that has replaced repressive, shared misery.
Social justice = shared misery
Some people deserve to be in their condition because they add nothing to society by choice!
Let's also use Amtrak as an example. Amtrak has horribly slow service outside of the Northeast US, why? Because Amtrak does not own any tracks outside of the Northeast, they signed a contract with Norfolk Southern, CSX, BNSF, Union Pacific, etc. that leases these privately owned railroads to Amtrak, but company freight trains maintain right-of-way on their railroads. So, Amtrak trains have no choice but to pull over for the mile plus long freight trains that come their way, causing hours of delay. Whereas this does not occur in the Northeast.
Something more relevant, I believe that the communications lines are owned by the government in England. What results is that my wife, for example, has a choice of about 8 different ISPs to choose from and each may provide TV service as well. Her 50Mb DSL fiber connection costs her $50 a month, and includes basic phone service and dozens of TV channels. Comcast, in my area, charges upwards of $120 for the same services, and of lower quality. Want an alternative? You only have one, Verizon, and they do not have fiber DSL in my area. so, if you want a connection faster than 10Mb, you're stuck with Comcast. This is from a country that, supposedly, prides itself on competition and free enterprise. Most of what RWNJs crow on about good points of the US are actually untrue, exaggerated, or just plain *******s, as the British would say.
Without net neutrality, internet firms won't have equal stream times. This hurts competition. Big companies would contract with ISP to collude website access to takeover the information stream to their liking. Governments should own the internet infrastructure to assure equal access for consumers and equal stream capacity for websites.
If there's privately owned roads, corporations would collude with construction companies to keep mom and pop stores from competing. Government owned infrastructure makes sure that logistics and transportation can move freely without any private interest. Use this example in the net neutrality issue that's going on with the FCC now.
So let me see if I understand your argument..
If I take and build a road across MY property, you think somehow that you get to dictate who gets to use it.
Using that argument, we should just deem all private yards open for the good of the public. Let people come play football in your yard, or even make it part of a neighborhood dump.
After all, one might collude to not take your trash and then what would you do..
Right now there is competition, because government isn't involved.
Get government involved and you get ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, all in the fascist authoritarian governments pocket
Without net neutrality, internet firms won't have equal stream times. This hurts competition. Big companies would contract with ISP to collude website access to takeover the information stream to their liking. Governments should own the internet infrastructure to assure equal access for consumers and equal stream capacity for websites.
If there's privately owned roads, corporations would collude with construction companies to keep mom and pop stores from competing. Government owned infrastructure makes sure that logistics and transportation can move freely without any private interest. Use this example in the net neutrality issue that's going on with the FCC now.
Without Reagan deregulating the telecom industry, there would be no cell phones and we would still be tethered to land lines and pay phones because there would be no incentive for Ma Bell to provide anything else. See how that works?
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