From: Richard Webb 
Subject: libertarians, was acb postings
Mike Freeman wrote:
   >RW> But
   >RW> then, I vote Libertarian when I get a
   >RW> chance in elections too .
   >I have considerable sympathy for Libertarian positions though I am
   >a registered Demo and consider myself slightly left of center. My
   >reason for not becoming a Libertarian is simple:  you don't see
   >Libertarians in bread-lines.  In other words, it tends to pay
   >little regard for the down-and-out.
I considered this, and have been a registered demo also, participated
in state conventions more than once.  Last time in 1988 as a Jackson
delegate.
THat was mainly for platform issues, though, as the blind of Iowa were
trying real hard (and succeded in) to get the state agency separated
back out.
The recent extreme right positions of the republican party has scared
me away, and the lesser of the two evils imho is the Democrats.
Politically, I lean closer to Libertarian than the other parties,
because of the positions on social issues, and my inherent beliefs
that the bureaucracy has failed us miserably.  I don't think that the
bureaucratic behemoth we've created has any more regard for the down
and out, except for maybe keeping them down and out to keep themselves
in jobs.
THe great social wellfare state we've created is more harmful than
good.  Our education system fails to educate, hence most of the U.S.
congressmen and Senators send their kids to private schools.  I think
that an educated person can make better choices than a bureaucracy can
make for him.
Add to this the recent bent to overregulate, such as what we can and
can't monitor on our radio receivers, and it gives me more reason to
not support the two majors.  I want my government out of my bedroom
and my bank account.
It used to be one didn't have to justify one's need or desire to do
something, but it's changing now to a premise of guilty until proven
innocent.  Now I must justify my reason to have a radio that can
monitor certain frequencies, even though I have no interest in cell
phones.  My bovernment, meanwhile, would like to have the ability to
tap my phone lines and open my mail without benefit of warrant.
As for bread lines, you don't see many libertarians in them, but you
see a lot of folks  who are second or third generation standers in
said bread lines .  This is real sad, but it's time to break the
cycle.  Our system should work, butthere are too many layers of crap
in the way of getting things done.  Javits Wagner ODay and the great
society were both bad ideas.  Maybe pretty on the surface, but the
premise in the first was totaly wrong, and the second was real badly
implemented.
Btw, liked your comments on grade 3 braille.  I still find it useful
today, and am glad I took the time to learn it.
Notice I didn't learn it at the school for the blind in preparation
for junior high and high school, but at the Iowa Commission in 1975,
where the staff believed in real self empowerment.  It would have been
an immense help to me in high school.
73.
Richard Webb
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