[ExI] Usages of the term libertarianism

[Kelly Anderson]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Mirco Romanato <painlord2k at libero.it> wrote:
> Il 23/05/2011 09:44, Kelly Anderson ha scritto:
>
>> I am disgusted by all of these programs. As are a large number of
>> Americans. That's why we have this Tea Party movement, because
>> Washington has stopped listening to the public, and only to the
>> special interests. It is a damn shame, and very socialist.
>
>> I can imagine that similar bad government programs can be found in
>> every government in Europe (as well as the rest of the globe). I don't
>> have knowledge of them myself sufficient to list them, but I can't
>> imagine that they don't exist.
>
> Yes, there are similar programs here. But they are not so blatantly.

Perhaps they are just under reported... I don't exactly know how free
the press is in Europe these days, but I've heard Hitchens complain
about there being less freedom of the press in England.

> For example, they gave out "pensions for invalidity" (a sum every month
> if you are considered unable to work or for people too old to work.
> It is not a secret that many of these were given for electoral reasons
> and cluster in specific zones. Sometimes some of the recipients are
> arrested because they should be blind and walk alone every day to buy
> their newspaper driving a motorcar.

Individual cheaters are of far less importance than systems of
interrelated cheating systems. Like farm subsidies, government run
health care (which I understand to be common in Europe), oil company
subsidies, the military-industrial complex, etc.

-Kelly