Call me dumb and slap me round the face with a wet fish, but what's the difference between being liberal and being a libertarian anyway?
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Hmm; thanks. I think I'd be a libertarian, but for the fear of big businesses ripping off third world countries.
left-liberal. oh and for the guy who was asking about the difference... if you're libertarian, you have to think that govt programs like welfare are wrong. not that they aren't good in theory, but that its not a govts job to do those things.
nice one. it's true. ideally, they're great, but i'm a big believer in personal responsibility and private charity. though i do tend to swing moderate in the concept of welfare to private citizens, i don't think corporate welfare should happen at all.