On 13 May 2011 04:50, Rafal Smigrodzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:25 AM, BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Nice to know that the 44 million surviving on food stamps deserve it<br>
> because it is their own fault.<br>
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### Yes, it is. And no, actually they don't deserve the stamps.<br>
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> the problem now. Half of those 44 million are children though,<br>
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### Then it's their parents' fault.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Although I am partial to aspects of libertarianism - particularly the non-economic, politics of personal liberty aspects - it is viewpoints like Rafal's above, that make me glad that there is unlikely to ever be a libertarian movement that achieves its aims in any kind of systematic way. In other words, for once I am glad of a "movement" whose members are all talk.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm aware that this is quite a pointed comment (for me, at least), but I have to agree with Samantha that these pointless conversations have been doing the rounds for 2+ decades now, never changed anything that I'm aware of, and don't look set to change anything in the forseeable future.</div>
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