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Re: From Harry Browne
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Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:49:35 GMT
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> > ...and your going to vote for this guy. How bizarre.
> 
> Which of these patently admirable stances do you think is bizarre?


As an outsider looking in, they read like they will make worse most of the
things which I perceive as being problems in the US - Drugs, Gun Ownership
and lack of what we in the UK call a welfare state. Further, has anyone
asked him how such a sudden drop in Tax will effect inflation - keeping in
mind your economy is already overheating?

I'm sure if I were a right winger, holed up in the in my bunker in the
Montana mountains (with 2 years supply of Dried Food, Bottled Water and
Bullets) HB's manifesto would make pretty good reading.

I'd love to see what the demographics of his support is(?).

Scott A



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  Re: From Harry Browne
 
(...) Well I don't find myself agreeing with you often Scott but I do on this one. I was actually considering voting for the Libertarian candidate for Senate in Massachusetts because I can't stand the drunken slob, Ted Kennedy, that is our current (...) (26 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: From Harry Browne
 
(...) In what way does it seem to you like any of these things are a problem in the US? I mean that seriously. I suspect that I will disagree completely, but I'm really interested in the vision from outside. (...) I don't know. Really. That would be (...) (26 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) Which of these patently admirable stances do you think is bizarre? Chris (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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