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GM you can post all the cartoons you like...but that is NOT what a Libertarian is.
That is propaganda that both the GOP and Democrat Parties are loving to see.
They are scared to death of a third party rising that actually believes in personal freedom and would take away all their money and power.
Libertarians do not espouse the views in that cartoon. They are NOT anarchists.
It's a simple belief that the govt. should not be giant, should not rule us, but should SERVE us and not spend one more penny than is absolutely necessary to perform it's obligations.
Do I think things are better than the 1930s? Yes, the 1930's were the years of the Great Depression.
And of course life in general is always going to be better NOW than it was decades ago because of advances in medicine and technology.
Does that mean our GOVT is "better" now? Hell no. They are overreaching into our lives. They tell us what we can and can not ingest in our bodies, what we can see or not see, what we can read or not read, what we can do or not do in our own bedrooms. The list goes on and on.
The things that ARE better with our govt. today are mostly the things that they have been STOPPED from interfering with...such as abortion.
Slavery was obviously wrong. And it was taken care of in the Civil War. And race discrimination during the Johnson Administration.
But don't compare the govt. stepping in for that (which it should have) to the govt. mandate for everyone to buy health insurance. Or the govt. arresting people for smoking marijuana (I don't smoke it...but it's none of the federal govt.'s business). Or the govt. spending millions of dollars to drag baseball players in front of Congress to question them about using freakin' steroids.
NONE of that is what the govt. should be doing.
And please don't get me started on what we are doing militarily. It's a fucking nightmare. Spending more than the next 13 countries combined on military. And for what?
Why doesn't Pres. Obama STOP it.
He won't and he can't. He's just like every other criminal in Washington D.C. and you know it.
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