Russia Says It Will Arrest Openly Gay Tourists

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115. So was Hitler

Mike Godwin is smiling now, but like Putin, Hitler took over in a time of severe economic crisis and artificially made the numbers look better before he morphed into his final form.

We joke about Somalia being a libertarian paradise, but it's not. Somalia is an anarchic system - for all intents and purposes Somalia has no government. Libertarians believe the government's only role is to protect life, liberty and property. Putin tried that - he cut taxes to the bone and deregulated as fast as he could. When Bush let the bankers kill the world economy, Russia got killed worst of all.

I just went to a hardcore Libertarian's website where I learned that the government needs to get out of the way of business. And I thought, "if your baby died because some food company decided melamine scrap was a good way to make its formula look better on a protein test, or everyone in town who went to the VFW picnic died because they ate rotten meat that had been buried in borax for a week to remove the stench, would that be okay with you?" Libertarianism worked okay 250 years ago when we were largely a nation of subsistence farmers.(Anarchy might work in Somalia, if it wasn't so hostile to life. Kinda hard to be a subsistence farmer with no water and infertile soil.) When everything you need to sustain life comes from people you have never seen, it becomes crucial that someone you can't pay off makes sure the things you buy are safe. And that, folks, is why we have a government.