Good Article on Libertarians and what they really believe in:

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Good article in the New York Times which gets to the meat of the Libertarians who plan to take over New Hampshire. With the exception of drug deregulation, they are on the same page with Republicans:

"So far, Free Staters range along the libertarian spectrum, some more moderate than others."

"Ms. Casey advocates eliminating entitlements because "then you'd only attract immigrants who are hard-working people." She said: "I radically oppose public education. It's demeaning and it creates criminals." And she says "the thing that hurts poor people is they don't know how to think of themselves as rich.""

"Mr. Somma doesn't argue against public schools, but maintains that they get too much money, which is good only "if you have to have nice school buildings and computers and all that." "Back in the day," he said, "they didn't need all that to teach kids. Back in the day, you were sitting around on rocks and listening to a guy talk."

"Mr. Somma, who grew up in Brooklyn, confessed that he and his wife moved for lifestyle reasons, too, not just political ones."

"Otherwise, he said, "I could never pitch to my parents, my wife: Listen, here's this group of people going to move to another state, and I'm going with them.""

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/national/27LIBE.html?pagewanted=1

Her comments regarding public school is just way off. They're attacking the symptoms, but they don't have a clue about the real factors that keep the poor, poor.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Yup, they're conservatives in sheep's clothing

Sounds like a few candidates for next week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots.

[morningglory]

2. Years ago I became interested in the Libertarian agenda and

subscribed to an online news/chat group. In the first batch of chatter a poster stated that Somalia had no government and "Somalia is doing great!" Having just read Black Hawk Down, I was flabbergasted. Somali people in the book could not leave their homes (the men) because someone might break in and steal everything. The women left the home and walked all day getting water to cook the mealy-meal supper. Exageration, but it did not sound like a very nice place to live.

[Az]

3. Libs snag social Dems

They also snag Economic Repukes who don't need the social agenda of the RR.

But in the end they are more dangerous. Holding to the same religious belief of Free Marketers on both the social and economic arenas they are leading the way to total consumption of the American public by the corporate entities.

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4. It is truly amazing how circular their politics are.

"Holding to the same religious belief of Free Marketers on both the social and economic arenas they are leading the way to total consumption of the American public by the corporate entities"

It is a surprise to see how damaging their call for less government is creating an environment that empowers corporations, not individuals nor the public.