RE: [pf] Cyberselfish Redux

by Fitzsimmons, Diane

05 December 2000 16:13 UTC

Donald and/or any other Libertarian on the list:

I would be interested in hearing more of your political beliefs.  Every
Libertarian I;ve ever heard seems to act as if there is *no* problem that
the government can fix, indeed that government *is* the problem.

Diane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Merkes [mailto:merkes@juno.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 12:41 PM
> To: positive-futures@igc.topica.com
> Subject: Re: [pf] Cyberselfish Redux
> 
> 
> >Meet Cisco Systems, the latest technogiant to illustrate the social 
> >hazards of the digital elite's hyper-libertarian ethos. Can 
> we sustain 
> >a society in which the wealthiest industries refuse to pay 
> taxes or to 
> >be regulated, but insist on government hand-outs?
> 
> I don't know about Cisco, but True Libertarians hate 
> corporate welfare as
> much as those following Nader in the Green Party.  I wish that people
> would stop characterizing Libertarians as greedy pigs, when what
> Libertarianism is really all about is the concept that 
> Government Can't
> Fix Every Problem.
> 
> Don
> Doty Island