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aClassicLiberal

  1. Scary! MT @brookingsgs: I don't think progressives are out of ideas but progressives around the world haven't fully figured out solutions about 1 hour ago via Twitterrific
  2. + xenophobic, - Liberal parties RT @Nonicoc How voting changed by increased immigration bit.ly/L9eLqW @bryan_caplan @SteveTheRawMan about 23 hours ago via Twitterrific
  3. @MichaelMandel to pay for the bloated public sector and extreme entitlements given especially gov't workers could never be solved by growth 2:04 PM May 28th via HootSuite in reply to MichaelMandel
  4. @MichaelMandel no entitlement system can work as PayAsYouGo. It has to be fully funded and actuarially sound, solvent. US SS is like Titanic 1:40 PM May 28th via HootSuite in reply to MichaelMandel
  5. @MichaelMandel Swedens SS collapsed by 1990 just for those reasons. Sweden is the first post industrial country some 20 yrs ahead of the US 1:37 PM May 28th via HootSuite in reply to MichaelMandel
  6. @MichaelMandel SS/Medicare is a actuarially unsound, it assumes a too high GDP growth rate, too many worker/retiree, too long longevity 1:36 PM May 28th via HootSuite in reply to MichaelMandel
  7. @danielsan0527 I'll leave you to your aphorisms. Good bye and have a wonderful life! 11:31 AM May 27th via HootSuite in reply to danielsan0527
  8. @danielsan0527 I'm an anarcho-classic liberal. So I rarely do anything anybody tells me. I never call people names, to me its bad manners 11:30 AM May 27th via HootSuite in reply to danielsan0527
  9. @danielsan0527 I help my neighbors, friends, coworkers and I do voluntary work. I don't go about telling other people what they should do 9:24 AM May 27th via HootSuite in reply to danielsan0527
  10. @danielsan0527 it follows. It's the mantra of all collective/communitarian movements. Forcing everybody to "help" others @phillipswindle 5:34 AM May 27th via Twitterrific in reply to danielsan0527
  11. @danielsan0527 @phillipswindle of course but that is voluntary as well as mutually beneficial. Next time he'll lend me other tools I need. 8:25 PM May 26th via Twitterrific in reply to danielsan0527
  12. @bfinstock @blackrepublican unfortunately there is: Joe Stiglitz 8:10 PM May 26th via Twitterrific in reply to bfinstock
  13. @GarettJones or maybe they are not voting with their wallets but votes because of their values and think the (R) will make the pie grow? 8:00 PM May 26th via Twitterrific in reply to GarettJones
  14. @phillipswindle @danielsan0527 our only, prime, purpose is to procreate and take care of our offspring. Nothing else matters! 7:58 PM May 26th via Twitterrific in reply to phillipswindle
  15. @jerlerup RT @ClassicalLiber Eugenics and Man at Yale, by Arnold Kling: bit.ly/LEtdt9 7:53 PM May 26th via Twitterrific
  16. The Swedish political joke describes what the different political systems do if you own two cows. @FriedrichHayek @blackrepublican 6:59 PM May 26th via Twitterrific in reply to blackrepublican
  17. 1 Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. @FriedrichHayek @blackrepublican 6:58 PM May 26th via Twitterrific in reply to blackrepublican
  18. 2 Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both and gives you milk. @blackrepublican @FriedrichHayek 6:58 PM May 26th via Twitterrific in reply to blackrepublican