What it amounts to, is this whole attitude that the individual is the only thing that a person has to be concerned about and be damn the rest of the community. What they fail to realize is that the stronger the individuals are as whole in the community, the greater security and liberty they will have individually also. After all, it is hard for an individual who has everything, to be secure and have liberty in a community that has nothing.
Here is the math for it. Typical libertarian math. A=B Even with this, we can deduce that if A < or = 0 or approaches 0, then so is b. Libertarians fail to take into account that: A+B=C, and as c approaches 0 or is equal or less then 0, that so does a and b. If some libertarians really looked beyond their superficial selfishness, they would be more willing to protect the members of their community, and make sure that their boats were afloat as well. Raising that fellers boat halfway around the world, isn't going to do them a bit of good when the chips are down, and in fact all it will assure is that he and his community are better able to invade and take you and your weakened community out when the time comes that he decides to do so, and as your community approaches 0, the easier that is for them to do. The same applies for a nation, the stronger the communities are in nation, the harder that nation is to destroy, invade or take over, and that is why it has been so hard to take this nation over, and why we see the being done to it that are being done, as a very lot of people wish to see the strength of it destroyed so it can be merged into a global plantation, where the only ones strong are those at the top, as they think that no one will be able to stand against them. Goat Canuck In Denver wrote: > I'm all for tariffs, they protect the companies that pay taxes here (for > the privelege of being a corporation), create jobs and keep the people > working. We need to go back to the original plan the Founders came up > with. The Founders knew that a nation needed to make as much of its own > products as possible for many reasons. They also knew that corporations > should never have the same rights a natural people without a lot of > strings attached to keep them in check. Between tariffs and taxes on > corporations the government managed to work just fine and had enough > money to do what it was created to do.
