US gov shutdown is life-or-death for some cancer patients, including children

howaboutthis · October 3, 2013, 12:10pm

Libertarian philosophy is wonderful if you can get everyone on board, but that’s never going to happen.

Libertarianism, on a large scale, is a chance for the powerful and greedy to become more powerful and wealthy. It fails, bigtime.

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