eek, just goes to show you pay as little attention to me as you do to history, politics, economics, etc.
okey...
You like:
guns
money
slagging off every government program in the universe
guns
virtually anything capitalist
charity
guns
1) "Guns" should really only figure in once, while "money" should be repeated
ad infinitum. I don't even particularly like guns actually; they are however an outstandingly useful tool for the defence of home, property and liberty.
2) The only government programs that could not be more efficiently administered by private forces are those which are dependent upon the monopoly of coercive force which the state enjoys.
Ergo the only government programs best administered by government are those which should not exist in the first place.
3) "Virtually anything capitalist" should read "absolutely everything capitalist."
4) Am I understanding you correctly that being an advocate of charity is in your view a
bad thing?
You detest:
taxes
free healthcare
social programs
workers rights
minimum wages
state pensions
virtually anything socialist
1) Taxes are theft. I do not like thieves.
2) I have nothing against "free healthcare" any more than I have anything against unicorns -- neither exist.
3) See 2) from the previous list. Private initiatives are more than capable of meeting the goals of most social programs; the only ones that cannot be met are those whose goals are beyond the pale of reality and can only exist propped up on the implied force of the state --
i.e. those programs which should not exist.
4) I advocate the same rights for workers as I do for everyone else. The concept of "workers' rights" as some uniquely labour-related set of rights not enjoyed by non-workers is an absurdity no different from women's rights, African-Americans' rights, etc. If you are referring to the latter, then yes, I do in fact detest people who advocate fantastical rights which do not apply to others. Those are
privileges not rights.
5) I have no real feeling on minimum wages either way. I think that the market very efficiently creates its own wages, and that the idea that the state can somehow magically determine a base wage that applies to all occupations in all demographs is pretty silly, but I do not "detest" minimum wages -- I just consider minimum wage laws to be exemplary of the sort of make-work nonsense in which politicians engage in order to garner political capital.
6) "Virtually anything socialist" should read "absolutely everything socialist."
Now maybe it's just me Mr P....but I detect a teensy bit of leaning towards the right hand side of the spectrum in the above list.
"Teensy bit of leaning" is not the same as you are implying above.
...now I might be mistaken here...some might say these are the hallmarks of a crazed right wing sociopath...but I would be content by saying that in your trousers you dress to the right.
Well, who is a crazed right wing sociopath? Eisenhower, Reagan and W. are all pretty much considered paragons of the right, and my characterisation of Ike as "America's last leader" notwithstanding, I have been very much at odds with the agendas of all three (each was a spend-happy statist whore with his own particular personal axe to grind -- Eisenhower was a religious wacko; Reagan, a backbiter who constantly made questionable under-the-table deals for political expediency; and W., well, you know. Violate the spirit and the intent of the Constitution with the frequency and zeal with which most other men masturbate, and you're very likely to raise Phaedrus' ire.)
So, but ok, I should have a Fox show because I'm a right-wing nutjob. OK.
Phaedrus
