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From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Starving Libertarians
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Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 12:03:04 EST
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>> (me)
> (cliff@unmvax)

>> I've never met a starving libertarian.

>Have you met *any* starving U.S. citizen?  (no?  Me neither.)

Well, I used "starving" in sentence to mean generally living in dire
poverty, and there are millions living in such.  There IS a severe
mal-nutrition problem in most ghettos, I don't know if you call that
"starving".  

>> In fact all the libertarians I've met
>> have been well educated (usually thru public education),

>Are you objecting to people that have been well educated, or trying to point
>out that public education is a big win?  What about people who don't get decent
>public education?

I'm objecting to the fact that the people who complain the most about
"big government" are the very ones who gain the most out of it.

Some things that probably would not exist without big government:
USENET (exists because of corporations and universities which tend to
have huge govt. contracts, while allow phone bills to dissapear in the
accounting (no flames from the few exceptions))

U. New Mexico (you even admit you are a govt. employee (getting yours
while its still available eh?))

National Parks:  The mineral resources are always going to be worth more
than "scenic value", only if a non-economicly motivated entity (US
govt.) can buy land will it remain virgin.

That plane you were about to catch:  FCC is a govt. agency, with an
excellent safety record.  I'm really glad that airlines don't have to
consider the economic tradeoffs when deciding on the level of my safety.

-- 
larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate)

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