Last week the New York Times magazine ran an article about how young people might be attracted to the libertarian ideas advocated by Rand Paul. If they are, it is more evidence that the young people of America couldn’t find their butts if they had a mirror on a stick.
First, Rand Paul is a phony. Any true libertarian would say that a woman’s decision to have or not have an abortion was not the concern of the government. Rand Paul thinks abortion should be illegal.
Secondly, the recent ban on drinking water in Toledo illustrates just how lame the libertarian philosophy is. The reason Toledo residents couldn’t drink their water, which is taken from Lake Erie, is because of a toxic algae.
I lived in Erie, Pennsylvania, for a year and was an organizer of a group called “Save the Lake.” One of our goals was to eliminate phosphates in detergents because they were ruining the lake. Government did that. Not the free market, not volunteer efforts, government.
Unfortunately, government did not regulate phosphates on farm fields. The phosphates in fertilizer washed into Lake Erie, toxic algae grew, and the residents of Toledo could no longer drink their water.
Rand Paul is an idiot.
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