I should probably qualify that. Some of the Libertarian paring down ideas and reforms make sense, as you need to have an efficient government that has the right economic incentives for people to be productive and to clear the job market. I am not an anarchist. I see no reason that we should practice the economics of a developing country as we are not without resources and we have a well developed infrastructure that is valuable to businesses, which we should use to our advantage.
I studied politics in Africa and the AIDS villages in China so I am pretty leery of the factors that go into extreme political dysfunction. I am well aware of the benefits of having a K-12 education system, which includes science education. I feel we could even expand the curriculum to include logic and more math literacy. But that's just me... I feel that if our workers are going to be expensive (and they are already expensive, having safety and environmental regulations and health care for older Americans is pricy), then we should probably also be well educated to make up for it. So companies have an incentive to invest here long term.
Where I agree with the Libertarians is that I am not sure if everyone deserves unlimited support for industries that are becoming obsolete because they do not want to update their skills. I do not believe in industry wide welfare. I think if the dependency rate gets too high we may not be able to reverse it. I do not think we are in an immediate crisis, but we could get there over time if we do not make small changes now. Expanding economic polarity however is really not helping things, the Republicans have left the world of sound economics...
Lately I am leaning towards the Democrats, I don't agree with every faction in their party, but they seem to be gaining the majority of the people who want to fix things. So it seems to be where the debate is currently.
Libertarians seem to be very diverse. I have some Libertarian tendencies as a lot of the actual ideas make sense, but talking to different Libertarians I would have to conclude it is a very wide tent including rightwing anarchist survivalists, as well as liberal treehugging hippies. Pretty bizarre mix. I am waiting to see if they get their act together. They could become a Third Party if they find some sort of center. Right now they seem to be drifting to the far right, a lot of money is going into steering them in that direction. American political parties are notoriously cheap, I suspect Third Parties are even cheaper...
The US is a divided country. If you feel that your country is pure feel free to throw the first stone. The truth is that politics is getting pretty frothy everywhere.
So where do you live where everyone loves everyone and there is no prejudice or haters. ?
I should probably qualify that. Some of the Libertarian paring down ideas and reforms make sense, as you need to have an efficient government that has the right economic incentives for people to be productive and to clear the job market. I am not an anarchist. I see no reason that we should practice the economics of a developing country as we are not without resources and we have a well developed infrastructure that is valuable to businesses, which we should use to our advantage.
I studied politics in Africa and the AIDS villages in China so I am pretty leery of the factors that go into extreme political dysfunction. I am well aware of the benefits of having a K-12 education system, which includes science education. I feel we could even expand the curriculum to include logic and more math literacy. But that's just me... I feel that if our workers are going to be expensive (and they are already expensive, having safety and environmental regulations and health care for older Americans is pricy), then we should probably also be well educated to make up for it. So companies have an incentive to invest here long term.
Where I agree with the Libertarians is that I am not sure if everyone deserves unlimited support for industries that are becoming obsolete because they do not want to update their skills. I do not believe in industry wide welfare. I think if the dependency rate gets too high we may not be able to reverse it. I do not think we are in an immediate crisis, but we could get there over time if we do not make small changes now. Expanding economic polarity however is really not helping things, the Republicans have left the world of sound economics...
Lately I am leaning towards the Democrats, I don't agree with every faction in their party, but they seem to be gaining the majority of the people who want to fix things. So it seems to be where the debate is currently.
Libertarians seem to be very diverse. I have some Libertarian tendencies as a lot of the actual ideas make sense, but talking to different Libertarians I would have to conclude it is a very wide tent including rightwing anarchist survivalists, as well as liberal treehugging hippies. Pretty bizarre mix. I am waiting to see if they get their act together. They could become a Third Party if they find some sort of center. Right now they seem to be drifting to the far right, a lot of money is going into steering them in that direction. American political parties are notoriously cheap, I suspect Third Parties are even cheaper...
The US is a divided country. If you feel that your country is pure feel free to throw the first stone. The truth is that politics is getting pretty frothy everywhere.
So where do you live where everyone loves everyone and there is no prejudice or haters. ?