How about the International Libertarians of the World, the Lobblies?

I think the more traditional conservatives of your ilk don’t like the global economy because they don’t like anything foreign, they are the ones who would like high tariffs and self sufficiency for the nation, whereas the new guys on the Republican block, the libertarians, love it because they love free untrammeled capitalism. Where do libertarians stand on one world ism? Wouldn’t that seem like a good thing, if the world was all libertarian? The early commies were hell bent on worldwide communism and the neocons are for imposing worldwide democracy, so why are the libertarians so isolationist? And come to think of it, you never hear about libertarians in other countries. Do you know of any?

And speaking of worldwide, those war drums seem to be beating mighty hard after those two beheadings. So far even the warmongiest of them all, is still ending their threats with no boots on the ground, which sounds a little silly because, if the situation is so desperate why not boots on the ground and if it’s not that serious why are we getting involved?

Personally I think if Obama puts even the tippiest toe of a boot on the ground, most all politicians will be with him, because nobody in political office wants to be a damned peacenik when their country goes marching off to war. Myself of course I am against it because then aren’t we allying ourselves with Assad and Iran, and shouldn’t they be doing the fighting anyway? And what do we think we are going to do, swoop in and vanquish ISIS, and then just swoop out? That swooping out is always much harder than it looked when we were swooping in.

I don’t know how this will work out in actual practice but theoretically once Obamacare is operating at full force people will be able to get their insurance at the exchanges, and employers won’t need to offer it and then they can afford to hire full time employees. The sooner we can decouple employment and health insurance the better, but that is a long way down the road.

I think this conservative notion of Mexican immigrants living high off the hog on American welfare is a canard. I don’t know of any statistics that support it.

Let me try to understand this thing where if people are throwing their money away, you’ll be glad to take it because otherwise somebody less deserving than you will get it. Of course it could be somebody more deserving than you that might get it if you didn’t take it. I don’t know how one ranks people on the more or less deserving scale, but it seems like you think you are very high up on it.

The implication of what you are saying seems to be that maybe it would be better if they just didn’t throw money away, so would you be happy to give up your social security as long as nobody else got it too?

I’m with you, easier to be an open oddball than to try to be one of the herd because it’s hard to be pretending to be something else, and most likely you would be found out anyway.