Tuesday, October 23, 2012

So Tonight is the debate for third party candidates on http://www.democracynow.org/  With four of the people running for President in this election cycle. I couple of weeks ago I said I would talk about the Libertarian party, so I will give a short bit. I Like to talk about Gary Johnson , check out this link for starters if you do not know about him.. He was a very good Governor in New Mexico, my home state and even more so for a Republican. He did start the gambling thing with his compact with the Native tribes, which I disagree with but it did finally help the New Mexico economy after it hurt it for a few years. I believe he is one of the very good center of the road, common sense sort of politicians we need. one thing I really like about Governor Johnson is the lack of the pushing of Ayn Rand sort of notion many libertarians push.

So about the Libertarian Party . Much of what they say in principle is great, like many of the other parties. However I do not agree that we must remove controls over the Giant corporation in our country. The largest of these businesses are only concerned with profit and not with the production of real goods and or services in our country or the rest of the world.  Mitt Romney is a great example of the worst money can buy. We can not continue with the kind of trickle down economy that got US in this mess, and only creates a bunch of  more poor people. Every since Ronald "Reaganomics"  the notion that trickle-down economics  has any real function in producing a healthy, robust type of economic growth has been shown to be totally false. It only continues to create a big divide between the top and regular people, and has not created any growth in income for almost everyone else. The top 400 families in America  have more than the bottom 50 percent. You can not tell me that anyone is so smart, or works so hard that they deserve to be paid millions,or hundreds of millions for there work, or that they work that much harder than the rest of us. Mitt Romney got over 100 million dollars in compensation for a deal when the Auto industry and the Banks were in trouble that cost all Americans an unfair burden.What the Republicans and many in the Tea party are pushing today is just a dressed up form of laissez-faire capitalism. See the third party debate tonight on link tv.

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