(January 4, 2015 at 4:39 pm)Blackout Wrote: The invisible had is not what some people think it is. Only a complete moron would argue for a total free market. Labour laws are a limitation, by nature anti-market and anti-competition between workers (preventing a race to the bottom) but are a tremendous necessity - It's also funny that economics has never proven that a lack of stability and rules both in the workplace and general quality of life work against profit and revenue, as well as GDP increases."Libertarian" is kind of an umbrella term in the USA. Any group that wants to differentiate itself from the two main parties will claim to be libertarian, because the connotation of "liberty" implied by the name is attractive. Go to the comment or discussion sections of any site that promotes libertarian politics, and the range of views goes from total lunacy to batshit insane.
There are probably a lot (well... maybe a few) of sane and reasonable libertarians in the USA, but putting people like that on TV doesn't deliver ratings. So you get the loons who think that you can build roads and maintain hospitals and fire departments by soliciting donations and ostracizing the holdouts.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
