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Califbill

Boating All Out wrote:
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:51:04 -0500, Boating All Out
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:08:31 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

*The* problem, in my opinion, is that any number of libertarian
candidates for high office are crackpots and therefore in the minds of
the average voters, the libertarian party and its candidates are mostly
crackpots.

The GOP, of course, is also infested with crackpots, but on the national
ticket, they typically do not pick one as the standard bearer except, of
course, in 2008, when MooseMama made it onto the ticket.

Unfortunately you define a crackpot as anyone who disagrees with your
opinion on anything.
I can't think of a bigger crackpot than Al Gore and he is a hero of
yours.

The voters define crackpots. That's why loonitarians do so poorly.
They are normally millionaires, and they look out for millionaires.
Cutting SS, Medicare and Medicaid in half won't fly.
When voters agree to that - is when hell freezes over.
I don't know why the loonies don't understand that.

Who, in national politics, is not a millionaire. If they aren't the
first time they are elected, they become one pretty quickly.

I understand doing anything to medicare and SS are the 3d rail of
politics but it is doomed by demographics and it is destined to fall
from it's own weight and it is probably too late to do much of
anything about it. There is no amount of taxation that would fix it.
When you have 2 workers per retiree and each retiree is getting more
money than either of the workers makes (SS plus medical care) , it
can't go on.
Medicare has been upside down for well over a decade and SS has been
upside down for years itself.
Entitlements eat EVERY DIME of revenue and we borrow everything else,
including defense. How is that sustainable?

Who is the crackpot, the guy who points that out or the one who says
everything is fine?

You're overwrought. It's nothing a little tinkering won't fix.
I won't tell you how, because you chose not to believe it.
But that's your choice.

A little tinkering? You are a ****ing nutcase. We are both financially
and morally bankrupt as a nation. A little tinkering is going to fix an
government that borrows 40 cents of every dollar it spends? You ISIS is
just a bunch of punks also.