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Healthcare is No More a Right Than Oreos

It’s been about a month or so now since I spent time staying up late and watching the Senate debate the current HC bill.  Two things I noticed (and may have mentioned here before) that blew me away are this:

1) The inability of the Democrats to properly define a ‘right’.  I heard them harp over and over on the fact that they were ‘making’ health care a right.

2) The inability of the Republicans to pick up on this and slam them on it.

Like most compassionate human beings, I want everyone to have health care.  I think it would be awesome if we had a society full of healthy, vibrant people working together harmoniously for the betterment of society.  That is the type of thing that makes libertarians orgasm.  The problem is the inability of government officials to separate legislation by force and compassion.

If I were to arbitrarily announce that I view the right of children to have cookies as a fundamental right of being an American and got a law passed to make this a reality, would this make our cookie factories more productive?  Would it make the input factors into the production of delicious cookies any less expensive and the production process less resource intensive?  Or would it make the incentives to corrupt and milk the cookie industry and government for all you can more perverse.  To quote John Stossel (perhaps not exactly), “If you want good houses and good health care, those things often come from private entrepreneurs seeking that evil ‘profit’.”

Sarah Palin: An All-American Anecdote

The headline might seem like an endorsement.  Eh, not so much.  I really want to like Sarah Palin.  I like her pro-gun stance and the idea of limiting government, and she has the nations’ attention.  Alas, like many others like her I cannot get behind this candidate (I know she isn’t running for anything).  There are a variety of reasons why (war, harping on family values), but the most glaring one is her lack of intellectualism.  I think there could be a place for me in the Republican party if there were a resurgence of intellectual libertarianism.

I’ve had a number of friends take interest in studying the philosophers and economists of the classical liberal school, any of whom could destroy the socialist arguments for big government programs, including the current health care debacle.  However, from Sarah Palin, I have yet to hear her make an argument better than socialism sucks, we like free markets here.  While this is a true statement, folks with socialist policies have dominated the intellectual landscape for a long time and to destroy these harmful policies, it will take more than talking points.  It is time for the ‘right’ to shift back to the Goldwater tradition and libertarianism.  If they could do this, it could set the nation on the path for an intellectual revolution which could destroy socialism and communism once and for all.

What the ‘right’ needs to really grow is to stop focusing on Palin, Hannity, O’reilly, and Rush and focus instead on standing on the shoulders of giants such as Menger, Mises, Hayek, and Hazlitt while embracing their modern day voices such as Ron Paul, John Stossel, Penn Jillette, and Nick Gillespie.  If the Republican party wants to see its future, it needs only to look to its own past.

As an aside… I saw someone (I think it was Hannity and Palin)  making the case that Bill Clinton’s quote about Barack Obama getting them coffee a few years ago is racist.  How clueless are these people.  I’m not a big fan of Clinton or Obama, but doesn’t it make sense that he was speaking to the fact that President Obama was new to DC when he broke onto the scene?  From the idea that people new to a business serve coffee to the established folks?  I don’t have any clue how they construe this as racism; I wish someone would enlighten me.

Libertarian Circles

The worst part (possibly the only bad thing) about running in libertarian crowds are the truthers.  Put up your proof or shut the fuck up.  I don’t trust the government either, but the rhetoric spewed by the truthers is painful to listen to.  “But you don’t know man” Neither do you, you jerk off.  I guess the worst ones are those who claim the planes were empty or filled with willing participants.  Tell that to their families and friends.  I guess the government you call incompetent is able to keep tens of thousands of people, who knew the thousands who died, quiet.  I agree that the government, as a whole, is incompetent at a great many things, and that’s why I think they would be unable to run such a large scale attack on the country.  Be skeptical about everything… especially a truther who is peddling some book, yet is devoid of logic or facts.

Rudy Guliani is A Cock Sucker

Here are my drunken rantings about Rudy:

Shut the fuck up you pro-war, pro-gun control jackass.  Who is funding this moron?  We need to export peace, low taxes, and cooperation, not war, guns, and Bill O’reilly.  The more this government grows and does dumb shit, the more I move towards the anarcho-capitalist movement.  I need more guns and more friendly, voluntary agreements.