Saturday, March 3, 2007

Liberals and conservatives are both silly little geese

Today I got into an argument over illegal immigration with a friend's friend from the NYU Republicans club. I presented my argument that we should let the Mexicans have California back, and I was called a "limousine liberal." Yes, because I am such a commie.

So I am just going to clarify all my political views here. I am a libertarian - I oppose the expansion of government intrusion into our economic and private lives. This often involves combining liberal and conservative viewpoints, since neither ideology inherently supports "small government" (despite what conservatives would have you think).

Some may say I am a liberal because I support the following:

Legalizing prostitution
Ending the drug war
Ending the war in Iraq
Cutting military spending by 50%
Allowing homosexuals to marry
Repealing "right-to-work" laws (on the grounds that they violate the right to contract between employers and employees)
Teaching evolution over "intelligent design" in public schools
Re-legalizing partial-birth abortion
Removing "under God" from the pledge and "in God we trust" from currency (although I hardly consider these to be key issues)

Lefties say I'm conservative because I support the following:

Eliminating the minimum wage
Allowing school choice via vouchers
Ending any and all gun control
Repealing the income tax entirely
Repealing the death tax
Repealing anti-trust legislation
Kicking the UN out of New York and withdrawing from said organization
Privatising Social Security
Dismantling Medicare and Medicaid
Dismantling welfare
Ending descriminatory affirmative action laws

But really if you look at it, I am nothing but consistent and it is the liberals and conservatives who have inconsistent ideologies. They increase and decrease the size and scope of government to suit their own needs and wants, while I am consistently anti-government on principle, whether I benefit directly or not. More people should be like me, because I am indeed all that and a bag of chips.

1 comment:

~dani said...

Not just a plain old bag of chips, but a bag of Baked Lays. Teh best chips around.

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