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Mike, perhaps you haven't looked around your neck of the woods recently. You are surrounded by people who need the state to protect them, from evil bosses, nasty doctors, dirty food, fake prescription drugs, unsafe cars, drunk drivers, and about a million other things.
Many of the agencies that people say are worthless are in fact making a difference. Most often, that difference isn't noticed in the same manner that most people don't notice airplanes until one crashes. When was the last time you saw a headline "27,000 flights arrive without loss of life, injury, or a spilled drink". You don't because it isn't news. It also isn't news when people don't get hurt at work, don't have thier cars blow up, and don't get fucked over at work.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Pull those agencies out, and the vacuum will be filled with greedy, nasty people who will take advantage of their fellow "libertarians" until the cows come home.
As for abortion, "pro life" is pretty much specifically "anti abortion". If he isn't anti-abortion, he would be "pro choice". He isn't. He doesn't have to "cow tow to the religious right" to think that he knows what a woman should do.
Libertarian is, in theory, the politics of the intelligent and self-reliant. The vast majority of americans can't take care of themselves without help from Uncle Sugar. You really think they would know what to do with more rights to "do what they know is right?"
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