Libertarian Responds to Modern Liberal Arguments
Uploaded by mfields on Apr 28, 2004
Liberals like myself are the true lovers of America. We fight for the civil liberties granted us in the Constitution and equal treatment of all socioeconomic classes.
Response: Civil liberties are essential, including the right to bear arms. All socioeconomic classes in this country have the same rights, I’m not sure what you are trying to imply by that. People in this country have freedom of association, if the Boy Scouts don’t want to allow homosexuals to join their organization that is their Constitutional right. You only bring up the Constitution when it backs up the point you are trying to make, which shows a lack of respect for the document itself.
[i:c67b8bbd47]Liberals fight for human rights both domestically and internationally. We campaign to bring down the sweatshops while the conservatives laud sweatshops on the basis of "pragmatism."[/i:c67b8bbd47]
Response: Factories oversees are bringing jobs and better lives to people in those countries. It is true those workers work longer hours that people in the US and at lower wages but they do so voluntarily. In China workers leave agricultural areas and line up for hours to get jobs at new American factories. Working at those factories allows them to properly feed and clothe their families for the first time. If you force our wage standards on other countries that would force factories out of those countries and create unemployment hurting the very people you are trying to help.
[i:c67b8bbd47]Liberals fight for education reform and increased funding for our public schools. Our nation's public school system is now [under GOP control] among the worst in the free world, We demand that all students in this nation be given equal access to a public education system that ranks #1 in the world. We liberals will not rest until that goal is achieved.[/i:c67b8bbd47]
Response: Government control is the reason our public school system is so bad. Even when more and more money has been given the public schools the improvements have been only minor. The answer is a nationwide voucher program which will bring competition and specialized schools to better serve students needs.
[i:c67b8bbd47]Liberals fight for increased Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, Welfare, and other GOVERNMENT aid programs that will lift the poor out of poverty and establish a sweeping middle-class. We will model our government on that of Sweden.[/i:c67b8bbd47]
Response: The welfare programs instituted by Roosevelt and Johnson haven’t solved the problem of poverty; instead they created a system where...