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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 12:09 PM
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"The government that governs least..." (list the real answer)
...leaves the real governing to the most ruthless.


I had another "drive-by" of that hoary so-called "Libertarian" chestnut, so I'm just venting the answer that person couldn't be bothered to listen to. Feel free to add your own.

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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 12:12 PM
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1. "... can be found in Somalia."
That's a classic failed state.
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 12:14 PM
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4. I Like the Somalia Answer
You can even expand it to "....can be found in Somalia, the libertarian's dream."
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 12:16 PM
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5. Yep, if you can affod your own private militia, you can do what you please
It's a rootin' tootin' free state - free speech, blanket gun ownership, no uncle sugar on your back for taxes ... bliss!
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 12:13 PM
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2. governs least. That's why we have to
ban abortion, ban contraception, pass a federal amendment banning gays from marrying or having civil unions, wire-tap phone calls, keep a database of the phone records of every citizen, get a national ID, build a wall around the border to seal off the nation, shift the tax burden until it is entirely on the middle and working class, and finally give large sums of taxpayer money to corporations in the form of corporate welfare.

You know, good ole small government...
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 12:14 PM
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3. Makes much more sense this way.
:hi:
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 12:19 PM
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6. provides no oversight so the elite can rape the planet & exploit the poor
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