Quote:robkelk wrote:*Shrug* He's a libertarian. The concept of big government (and I suspect any government) is anathema to him. Their concept of paradise would be a return to the 90's. 1890 not 1990. Or being run like Bangladesh. The only government spending (unlimited budget) they would support is the armed forces. The funny thing is that the smart libertarians I speak with had privately admitted their ideas would not be practical in the real world. The crazy ones are the one that insist it can be done.Quote:Valles wrote:It looked to me more like an insult to bureaucrats (one of whom is myself, BTW), not an attack on a concept.Quote:ECSNorway wrote:A man dies because the safety net that basic human decency should have given him a right to was destroyed - not failed, destroyed, not for any functional reason, but for greed and spiteful lies - and the only thing you can think to say about it is to attack the idea of having a safety net?
Government bureaucracy is insensitive and stupid.
In other news, water is wet, ice is cold, and it's dark out at night.
What the fuck?
If you want one example, the attempted deregulation of California's power utilities. I don't see any libertarians calling that it be done more.
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