Jumpin said:
HappySqurriel said:
Jumpin said:
The fact that he spent his career within the insane asylum called "The Republican Party", the most ridiculed political party of our time, is evidence enough that he is not a very intelligent political leader. Other hints:
1. He's a Libertarian.
2. Wants to cut all funding to environmental projects.
3. Wants to cut funding to healthcare.
In fact, the only good things he stands for, Obama already mostly took care of last year; most importantly, ending the war in Iraq and greatly securing Afghan society. You can almost guarantee that Obama has a much better, and more sober plan for the future that won't f*** up the rest of the world. Ronulans! Put down the Kool-ade and come home from Jonestown.
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1) What's wrong with being a libertarian?
2) Please define "environmental project" and provide a list of successful, cost effective, government run projects which would be cut
3) Being that the United States spends (roughly) as much on healthcare per capita as Canada does while providing benefits to a fraction of the people, please provide evicence that government funding of healthcare in the United States is cost effective and should be protected from budgetary cuts.
Beyond that, the end of the war in Iraq was Barack Obama following the exit plan of George W. Bush. Isn't it amazing that the same timeline everyone was so critical of Bush for these same people praise Obama for?
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1. What's wrong with being a libertarian? It excludes the well being of the larger portion of society in order to benefit the people who have the greatest investments (those who run the corporations and who can afford to buy up everything) and not the people who actually work. It ignores environmental issues, and issues of healthcare, and instead turns both into a business - which ignores everything that does not lead to a profit. It's essentially an evil ideology, and we know from history that Laissez Faire economics always fail.
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I wonder if that's so... (Nevermind the Laissz Faire Economics thing, people always point to the great depression,ignoring the fact that Hoover increased government spending more then any other president up until that point.)
Lets look at Economic Freedom and Contrast that with Gini Coefficent
http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/Freedom_in_the_50_States.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Gini_coefficient
5 Most Libretarian States Economically/ Gini Coefficent Ranking Lower = More Equal
South Dakota/17
New Hampshire/4
Colorado/29
North Dakota/8
Idaho/8
5 Least Economically Free/Gini Coefficent Ranking Lower = More equal
New York/ 50
Maine/12
California/44
Alaska/2
New Jersey/34
I'm not really seeing a correlation either way really. Of course it's not controlling for a lot of things though.
