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A reader recently sent me an article on the Libertarian party, it’s growth and how it affects the Presidential election. Also in the article it shows that Libertarians are basically all over the map on issues. Here is an excerpt from the article:

What do Libertarians believe?
As befitting a party with the word “liberty” embedded in its name, Libertarians prize individual freedom above all, and believe that government should play the smallest possible role in the economy and in people’s lives. “Think of us,” the Libertarian Party declares on its official website, “as a group of people with a ‘live and let live’ mentality and a balanced checkbook.” Though their symbol is the Statue of Liberty, Libertarians also identify with the porcupine, whose prickliness underscores one of their favorite mottoes, “The right to be left alone.”

As I read through this article: Briefing: The rise of the Libertarians and I decided that I would list what I support:

I support the Bill of Rights: One thing that I feel really strong on is separation of church and state. I can’t stand when these politicians get involved with religious communities. I can’t stand that “In God We Trust” is on our currency. I can’t stand when they sing “God Bless America” during the 7th inning of baseball games. It’s a nice song, but I’m just not down with it. And I cant stand “One nation under god” in the Pledge of Allegiance. Did you know the Knights of Columbus in New York City felt that the pledge was incomplete without any reference to a deity. Appealing to the authority of Abraham Lincoln, the Knights felt that the words “under God” which were from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address were most appropriate to add to the Pledge. In New York City on April 22, 1951, the Board of Directors of the Knights of Columbus adopted a resolution to amend their recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening of each of the meetings of the 800 Fourth Degree Assemblies of the Knights of Columbus by addition of the words “under God” after the words “one nation.”

I support gay marriages and adoption. I just blogged about this so need to explain.

I support abortion rights: It’s a nice population controller, plus, I feel that teenagers have no business having babies due to maturity reasons. Also if a woman was raped and she becomes pregnant with that monsters baby.

I support euthanasia which would allow a person to end their life in dignity after having received every available type of medical care and their condition has not or will not improve.

I am not much of a supporter on medical research on finding cures for cancer, AIDS and etc. I do support privately funded but not government funded research. I just recently post an article on the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research because ESPN runs this once a year. But, I feel that we need disease as a population controller. I consider my self “pro-death”.

I support to abolish the IRS for a simpler tax system. When we pay income tax, we are basically being forced to pay for someone who doesn’t want to be responsible for their life. I believe that we should not be taxed on our incomes, but on goods and services. Think about it for a second. Say for instance we had a 23% tax on goods and services. Well, wealthy people buy more and expensive items, so they will be the ones that get hurt the most in paying the tax. Also, we have approximately 12 million illegal immigrants who live here in the U.S. and do not pay tax. Well, they will have no choice in paying tax now since it will be on consumables. Visit www.fairtax.org.

I support the “War on Terror”. I’ll tell you what, most Americans don’t think that terrorism is a major issue. Well, when the day comes when they bring a nuke up in here, it’s going to make for a far worse day than 9/11. Whatever city gets hit with it, you are gonna see hundreds of thousands of Americans looking like fried chicken running around. And that’s because we have failed to acknowledge that there is a radical Islamic movement that hates us. It’s all about some stupid ass religion. I’d rather get shot in the head and robbed by some scum bag than die at the hands of some stupid ass religious martyr. I refuse to die for anyone’s freak ass religion.

I do not support the “War on Drugs”. It wastes $46 billion a year on taxpayer money. I’m a proponent of decriminalizing drugs and offering non-violent drug offenders rehabilitation. Hell, I’m all for legalizing and regulating drugs. The U.S. actually condones idiocy and I’m all for it. Go ahead and do your coke, heroin, meth and etc. Just don’t be bringing that shit out of your home or in front of kids. It’s just like don’t drink and drive. Kill yourself with it for all I care, we need population reduction anyways. Marijuana definitely needs to get legalized. More and more states are starting to decriminalize it. I feel that alcohol abuse is more devastating than being a pot smoker. I was never big on the old pot, but I drank, believe me I drank myself close to death.

I support education vouchers for our children. Our kids should have the choice of what school they want to attend. This should not be handled by the federal government. This should be handled by state and local governments.

I do not support a universal healthcare system. Socialized healthcare systems that exist are all failing. The taxpayers of these systems feel the pain from this. Also, you do not get the greatest healthcare in these systems, because there are not enough doctors to handle the influx of people coming in. So you get long waiting lines for medical services. People need to start putting money into Health Saving Accounts.

I do not support in having many entitlement programs. I understand people do lose jobs, people become disabled and they do need help. But there is a huge portion of Americans out there who abuse these systems and refuse to apply or reapply themselves to take responsibility of their lives.

I support legalizing prostitution. You make them take a test for disease every week and you make them pay income tax. If we had the fair tax, then it would be alot easier to collect taxes from them.

I support reduction of immigration to the U.S. We are the only country in the world that allows the type of immigration we do. We immigrate over 1 million people a year. We need to have stricter laws on illegal immigrants also. Illegal immigrants are invaders not citizens.

I support privatizing Social Security. Social Security is bankrupt and when I retire in 33 years I will never see it. We need to have personal retirement accounts. America, it’s time to start saving and stop spending. We need to become savers. The way that private Social Security would work is that the Government would force employers to offer basically almost a 401k type plan where you are forced to put a certain percentage of income into this retirement account, you pick what you want to invest in and that’s it, the money is YOURS! It doesn’t go into a big pot, where everyone is putting their grubby hands into.

I JUST WANT THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE!

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Tags: bill of rights, decriminilization of drugs, education vouchers, gay adoption, gay marriage, healthcare, income tax, knights of columbus, legalized marijuana, legalized prostitution, Social Security, the fair tax, war on drugs, war on terrorism