Posted on 10/31/2001 10:11:16 PM PST by JohnHuang2
2.2 Parents have the right to spend their money on the school or method of schooling they deem appropriate for their children.
2.1 Can decisions really be state and local and personal while there is an NEA?
2.2. If parents have this right then what about the rights of those who pay taxes and have no kids? They should have the right not to support other peoples kids shouldn't they? As a home schooler of 8 children our cost per child is about 100 dollars per year, in the public school across the street it is probably 10-20,000 per child. It makes me sick to see what kind stuff goes on over there.
-- rocker KID ROCK, on his libertarian leanings, in a Spin magazine cover story.
I dunno, I just found this funny.
3.1 Free market health care alternatives, such as medical savings accounts, should be available to everyone, including senior citizens.
3.2 The federal entitlement to Medicare should be abolished, leaving health care decision making regarding the elderly at the state, local, or personal level.
3.1 Aren't they?
3.2 No more medicare, sure that'll fly. Don't put that anywhere near the ticket of a candidate that you actually would like to see get elected.
2.2 - My thinking here is that I don't need to pay for your child's education, and you don't need to pay for mine. But if you want to pay for mine, and I accept your assistance, that is not the governments business. Private NPO's like the United Negro College Fund, financed by philanthropy and foundations is a good idea.
Regarding Kid Rock, I saw this over on Democratic Ungerground. They were complaining about Dennis Miller's new book, in which he said:
``Clinton leaving the White House quietly is like Kid Rock leaving a Holiday Inn.''
:)
3.2 - Just set a date, sustain those going out and eliminate it.
Wow! I'm finding out all kinds of amazing things about myself.
I was amamzed to find these things about myself. I am a civil libertarian Green Party supporter. Supposedly I am an atheist, a baby killer, would rather see a man die than a tree.. Of course this is all an attempt by conservatives to smear anyone who opposes their agenda as 'kooks' or 'black masked anarchists'. No, we do not want to have sex with kids, we want to lower age of consent so that sexually mature individuals can legally engage in sexual activity. We do not kill babies, we support the right to have abortion and promote comprehensive sex education and the free availability of contraceptives. We do not all want to smoke dope, we just want to end prohibition because it is destroying families and killing people, and is a poor excuse for whittling away our freedom. We don't want to live in total anarchy, but we do want as little government interference in our lives as possible. Gov't out of our bedrooms, backyards, and hard drives. If being a 'radical individualist' makes me a threat then so so be it..
So anyone without children or with grown up children doesn't have to pay at all right?
You're no civil libertarian if you support abortion. In fact I'm miffed; it's people like you who give libertarians a bad name. Killing a child in the womb is an infringement of rights (Life, Liberty, and Persuit of Happiness) as well as an initation of force against an individual.
you're all right on everything else as far as I can see.
I'm 33 years young. Support for the Green Party means you support reforming government.
Here's a list of core Green values
1) Ecological widsom
2) Grassroots democracy
3) Social justice
4) Nonviolence
5) Decentralization
6) Community based economics
7) Feminism
8) Respect for diversity
9) Global responsibility
10) Sustainability
A Green said to me last week that "voting Democrat is like re-arranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic." I said "well what's that mean about your vote for Nader?"
As Nader said, the Democrat and Republican parties are two sides of the same coin.
The guy is a damned socialist, not even a smart one.
There's not much room for Socialists in the Green Party. Socialism has destroyed the environment and human rights.
As for Winona Laduke? She's the biggest kook ever.
hmm... 'kook'. OK. I thought only right-wingers were 'kooks'.
You're no civil libertarian if you support abortion.
Supporting reproductive rights is civil libertarian.
In fact I'm miffed; it's people like you who give libertarians a bad name. Killing a child in the womb is an infringement of rights (Life, Liberty, and Persuit of Happiness) as well as an initation of force against an individual.
Sure, if you believe that a fetus has the same rights as a person. But that's not so.
stick around, you might have a change of heart.
A fetus has unique DNA - clearly the fetus IS another person, with all the corresponding rights.
Where should I begin?
One, Afganistan is in poor shape for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the Soviet Red Army. Because I might oppose compulsary tax-funded public school does not mean I don't want children to be taught. This does not turn the United States into Afganistan. The only nation in the world who could do that was the Soviet Union, and they aren't around anymore, thank God. For you to suggest that libertarians are going to turn America into Afganistan is a hell of a conceit. That's a non sequitor regardless.
Two, Anton LeVey was a out to make a buck. His "little pentagram club" as you call it was to have been a cult not unlike that of the Scientology cult of Lafayette Hubbard or Trancendential Meditation of the Maharishi Whatevertheheck. Actually, LeVey's club was the inspiration for Hubbards pseudo-religious cult. LeVey didn't care about children getting education becasuse he was out to pick the pockets of unsuspecting supersticious dupes, neither did Hubbard.
Libertarians are all in support of home school and private schools not because we don't want children to get an education, but because we do.
Please go jump in the proverbial lake, thanks.
That is a useless definition of "person". Hell, with that definition a dead body could be a "person", and a living person would actually be thousands of "persons". The best definitions of "person" I've found is a gradient based on cognitive ability.
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