LIBERTARIANISM

I'm breaking the ice by delving into one of the more taboo topics I have to chose from -- POLITICS!!!

Perhaps I can get through this segment without hurling, yelling, or crying.  But it is more than likely that I'll do at least one of the three.  You know, because I'm pregnant?!  Not because I'm outrageously passionate about politics.  Crying over politics... that would be silly........

Let me start by mentioning that I voted for the old guy in the 2008 election.  Yep, sure did.  I voted for him not I was much of a Republican, nor I because I hate black people... no, no, no.  I voted for John because of his military experience [I have a (well-deserved!) soft spot for soldiers].  I also voted for him because I strongly believe in both conservative fiscal policy and rights for all unborn babies.
OKAY, OKAY- and I because I thought Sarah Palin was hot.

No matter my voting record, I am much more of a "textbook" Libertarian (fiscal conservative, social liberal) than a Republican or a Democrat.  ULTIMATELY, I think that our current two-party democratic system is bologna.  And instead of letting it fester and rot, I'd like to try to fix it, so long as 'fixing' it doesn't involve raising taxes.

(I'll save the details of my opinions about "taxes" for my impending posts on Economics, which I suppose is my true forte.)

Rather than going on on my own pro-Libertarianism rant, I'm gonna take the lazy way out and....

COMPILE A LIST OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE POLITICAL QUOTES TO DATE:

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too."

SOMERSET MAUGHAM

"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."

TATICUS

"Remember, democracy never lasts long.  It soon wastes, exhausts, and destroys itself.  There never was a democracy that didn't commit suicide."

JOHN ADAMS

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?  It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
EDMUND BURKE

"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."

RONALD REAGAN

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
KAHLIL GIBRAN

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

GOETHE




And now I'm gonna sit back and let that marinate.