RE: Libertarian Socialism
September 14, 2014 at 8:22 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2014 at 8:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 13, 2014 at 5:09 pm)stonedape Wrote: Healthcare, law enforcement, safety, labor and education is up to the states. With that said the states could do better. Each county could do better. Each city could do better.The resources required for states (and counties, and cities) to do those things are not equally distributed (resources et all are not equally distributed on this planet nor have they ever been). You'd be consigning folks in Alabama to a life of misery and sickness while allowing folks in Mass to live happily and healthily all the while. We've already tried that.....btw.
Count me out, that's the "fuck you got mine" vision of America which I absolutely abhor. We're either in this together or the whole thing crumbles. I'd rather not see us turn into a collection of ruinous states while we hammer away at the responsibility of those patently incapable of handling those things mentioned. A properly functioning fed could manage something like healthcare, while the city council of Podunk, Illinois is unlikely to even be -able- to rise to the challenge (even if they really, really.....really wanted to).
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