Jaguar wrote:Who gets to decide what is right, and who gets to enforce people doing what is determined to be right? Two consenting adults exchanging favors for money, you say it is not right, they say it is. Since your side is in power, you throw them in jail for committing an act they believe is okay. I believe both parties are wrong, but why not just leave each other alone.anygunanywhere wrote:Liberty and freedom means to do what is right , what you should, not what you want.Jaguar wrote:I don't understand, the LP does not have a platform? The LP does not take stances on any issues? I may disagree with some of the issues they have in the platform, but when it comes to fiscal matters, I do agree with the platform.anygunanywhere wrote:No offense, but being a libertarian means you (not personally) do not take stances on any issue. As long as they are left alone they don't care what others do. That is not the definition of liberty.Jaguar wrote:When both choices are Democrats, a Democrat will win.
I am a fiscal conservative. To paraphrase the great Ronald Reagan, “I did not leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.”
I am a Libertarian.
I do agree that the GOP left me.
Anygunanywhere
So wishing to be left alone and leaving others alone is not liberty? Come again? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Anygunanywhere
But back to fiscal conservatives. Obama thought investing my money in green energy was right. Romney thinks investing my money in green energy is right. I’d like to tell both of them to spend their own darn money and leave me alone.
In the second debate, the very first question was a softball over the plate to Romney who whiffed on it. A college student was worried about future employment opportunity. Romney basically said to this kid who again, is worried about his future (paraphrased), “I support Pell grants, I want to take more money from some people and give it to college students, so you don’t have to worry about not being able to find a job and pay for your loans.”
Liberty is not having to pay for other’s college tuition. I have two kids in college and my wife and I pay for it. When you have kids in college, you pay for it (not you, you, but you in general). Liberty is not being forced at the end of a gun to pay for someone else’s college education.
I think people should be able to do what they want as long as it does not have a negitive impact on others. I used to be a christian but I no longer belive in the Bible from doing my own searching. Do I think gay marriage is right? Part of me says no but the other part says who am I to tell people how to live. Same with guns. We have people that do not like them but they have no right to tell me what I can and can not have.