Warren Buffett Says America Is "So Rich" It Can Afford Single Payer

[NeoTrader]

I'm a classical libertarian. Chances are you have what may be termed anarcho-capitalism associated with the current use of the term "libertarian" in the U.S. I am more, I guess you could say, a Bill Weld Libertarian than a Gary Johnson Libertarian. Perhaps if you did some reading you could sort these things out for yourself. Communism is something else entirely. You might profit from reading up on that as well. If you want to understand the classical libertarian viewpoint, I can't think of a better source than Noam Chomsky, who has spoken widely on this topic. In fact the expression anarcho-capitalist is his term for some of those in the U.S. who are wrongly describing their views as "Libertarian".

Use the term you want... It doesn't matter, you're in favor of government controling your and other people's lives: This is SOCIALISM.
As Ayn Rand said: "Communism seeks to enslave men through force, Socialism seeks the same thing through vote." Therefore, their goal and final result are the same. This is what matters.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Ayn Rand...

...was an idiot. Have you actually read her books? I have, cover to cover. She was a pseudo-intellectual for the intellectually lazy. Make yourself at home.

 

[newwurldmn]

...was an idiot. Have you actually read her books? I have, cover to cover. She was a pseudo-intellectual for the intellectually lazy. Make yourself at home.

Cut him some slack. Every highschool wannabe philosopher dreams of being Howard Roark.

 

[NeoTrader]

I think you're obsessed with the term "counterargument."

No... This is a mere response to your obsession in making personal attacks/references, due to your lack of arguments based on logic and facts. Stop doing it and I'll stop saying it.


As to the video: WTF? That is exactly the point... Flawless thinking from Friedman. But again... There's that "speed issue" going on with you apparently...

As it is some pharmaceutical companies are fast and loose with their research. And now you want to do without the FDA? Pound sand.

As the logic in the video shows: YES.

 

[NeoTrader]

...was an idiot. Have you actually read her books? I have, cover to cover. She was a pseudo-intellectual for the intellectually lazy. Make yourself at home.

Again with the personal attacks for lack of arguments?
No point in discussing with people who insist on doing that... Waste of my time... I hope you some day become a person who is able to sustain what you say through LOGIC, REASON and FACTS... But I realize it is very unlikely... Oh well... Life goes on... I'm done with you. Bye.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Cut him some slack. Every highschool wannabe philosopher dreams of being Howard Roark.

I don't know. Didn't Dagny leave him for John Galt? Oh, wait. Wrong book. (In my defense, they're all the same diatribe.)

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Again with the personal attacks for lack of arguments?
No point in discussing with people who insist on doing that... Waste of my time... I hope you some day become a person who is able to sustain what you say through LOGIC, REASON and FACTS... But I realize it is very unlikely... Oh well... Life goes on... I'm done with you. Bye.

Seriously, STFU.

I'm reminded of Ayn Rand and her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged. It said much about Rand. She escaped from a repressive communist regime and only saw the opposite extreme as sanctuary. For her...there could be no middle ground...was marked by a past that led [her] to an extreme view of the world [she] lived in.

One extreme is hardly ever a suitable solution to the other. It's a little like feeling very cold and then lighting yourself on fire to warm up. But good luck trying to explain that to some of the two-dimensional cartoon characters here. They almost uniformly favor the Ayn Rand flamethrower.

 

[newwurldmn]

I don't know. Didn't Dagny leave him for John Galt? Oh, wait. Wrong book. (In my defense, they're all the same diatribe.)

He's the architect who rapes the heroine in Fountainhead (I still don't get how Ayn Rand justified that).

Anthem was a fun book. Especially as I was entering my "Rush" phase.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

He's the architect who rapes the heroine in Fountainhead (I still don't get how Ayn Rand justified that).

Anthem was a fun book. Especially as I was entering my "Rush" phase.

I didn't read Anthem, but I did read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. The diatribes that pass for dialogue are interchangeable.

 

[newwurldmn]

I didn't read Anthem, but I did read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. The diatribes that pass for dialogue are interchangeable.

Anthem was much shorter and more science-fiction-y. I was a wanna be philosopher in highschool. I read a lot of her non-fiction essays as well and I agree with you.