1edwood79

I'm a libertarian nurse. Ask me anything.

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Aggression is coercion, fraud, assault or theft against another individual or their property. You can be as intolerant as you want to be as long as you don't do any of those things. The hallmark of liberty is tolerance. You want to form a socialist c...

Though I believe there is some truth in the writing of Ayn Rand, her works are not representative of libertarianism,by a long shot.Try some Hayek, Fredric Douglas or Henry Thoreau. Regulation is, like any business, only as good as the people administ...

Is no one else disturbed by the fact that experienced nurses are being forced to get BSNs to keep jobs they have been doing for years? Where are out unions and professional organizations on this? If they were truly representing the best interests of ...

The US government is, exponentially, the biggest polluter in the nation. Why? Because it far too frequently acts as an unchecked entity. If you want to see an example of the kind of destruction caused by unchecked government fraud, incompetence, perj...

I agree. I'm not placing the blame on Obama. The ACA is just the icing on the cake. You can't tell me you haven't noticed an acceleration in the process. Small hospitals and even large clinics are being snatched up left and right. Doctors who own the...

The new system is less responsive, less innovative, more intrusive, and more expensive.

You are describing the system we have now, not a free market system. The situation you describe, including corporate red tape, happens because Government, Big Pharma , Insurance and Big Hospital Systems are colluding, eliminating competition, driving...

I like Ron Swanson. The character is a parody, but a gentle one.

Even in that "horrible" Gilded Age things were steadily getting better for the common man. Markets respond to the public interest and generally gets it right. Those who aren't right go out of business. Centralized planners tell the public what its ...

I only hate collectivism, or the notion that individuals should be forced to participate in whatever the powers that be decide is the common good. Affordable Health Care would be great. I'm OK with labor organizations as long a participation is vol...

And you think that giving those same people power through government is a better idea?

Do you really think that Big Pharma isn't right in there making the rules?

Ooh! A true raving neocon. I so seldom see those in the wild.

It's tough. It's a compromise I make based on the fact that I live in a relatively liberal democracy. I do fear other nation states and believe we need a well equipped modern armed forces to defend us. However, I do not want politicians using that po...

The key part of that simplistic phrase being "...hurt anyone else." The basic ideal for many libertarians is the Non or Zero Aggression Principle. Random violence is aggression, and should not be tolerated. Science Says, your concerns about violence...

I don't believe there is a conspiracy, just ignorance.

Problem is that we are going to end up in the same boat with this system. Even in the sixties health care was relatively heavily regulated. Here's a question for you. Why is it that every other technical resource we have now, tvs, cell phones, appli...

Anarchism is a broad class of political thinking. Some libertarians are anarchists. All anarchists are not libertarians. There are left anarchists who don't believe in government, but also don't believe in the right to own property. Libertarian anarc...

I'm here to answer questions.

Your confusion confuses me.

Here is the Libertarian Party on healthcare. Not all libertarians are party members and they may have different views. My view is that the system were are instituting now has no way to assess the value of the services and products being used because...

I'm not a new nurse or libertarian. I am new to allnurses. And yes ask me anything.