alt.politics.economics

On 04 Sep 2007 23:07:35 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote:

>In news:56ird3h1l8tn6uq3jqnjjt7c6blmpsq0ai@ Hugo S. Cunningham
> wrote:

>> On 29 Aug 2007 17:42:30 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote:

>>>Since you're not libertarian, the use of the compound construction
>>>["libertarian-conservative"]
>>>is bogus.
>>
>> Your reasoning seems to be:
>>
>> If you are not Black, you cannot write about issues involving Blacks.
>> If you are not Chinese, you cannot write about China.
>> If you are not a Mayflower descendant, you cannot write about early
>> New England.
>
>You're pretty dense.
>
>My reasoning is exactly this:
>
>None of your positions are remotely related to any flavor of anything
>libertarian, so your use of the term "libertarian" in labeling yourself
>is dishonest.
>
>Get it now?

Since you answered it, you must have read this post of mine on 28
August

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If you go back, you will find your current points answered, eg

Are these two paragraphs "[not] remotely related to any flavor of
anything libertarian"? --

>>>>>>>Hugo S. Cunningham wrote:

>>>>>>>>Like libertarians, LCs oppose squandering scarce public safety
>>>>>>>>resources on crusades against pornography and drugs, where prohibition
>>>>>>>>serves only to empower gangsters and terrorists.
>
>>>>>>>>Like libertarians, LCs favor keeping taxes and spending down, though
>>>>>>>>they do not have the same utopian hope to abolish the IRS.

As for me not being a true libertarian conservative, I admitted it
several rounds back, in the same post:

>>>>>>>>Indeed, my own claim of the LC label was mainly to save space. Some
>>>>>>>>of my long-term positions, eg in favor of universal health insurance,
>>>>>>>>are utilitarian (aka "good-government") centrist.

Does that, as per my last message, disqualify me from discussing the
phenomenon?

Please name some politicians and/or periodicals that you consider most
representatively "libertarian."

--Hugo S. Cunningham