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- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Not a Boomer)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism
- Subject: Re: Libertarians and Labor Unions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.191122.6794@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:11:22 EST
- References: <C19vJ4.BD7@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1993Jan23.021457.7705@midway.uchicago.edu> <C1C0yv.MKB@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- In article <C1C0yv.MKB@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, Timothy.J.Young@dartmouth.edu (Timothy J. Young) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan23.021457.7705@midway.uchicago.edu>
- > sals@florimel.uchicago.edu (red-head fancier) writes:
- >
- >> Huh?? The Libertarian party is always underfunded and most of their money
- >> comes from individual donors.
- >
- > Well, they'd have to have a good deal of money to regularly get on the
- > ballot in all 50 states. In many states, it's hard to get on the ballot
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- A) Volunteers.
-
- B) 50 states has only been achieved in 1980 and 92, I believe.
-
- >...
- > In some ways, the fact that the Libs and Perot can break the two-party
- > monopoly is good. I think it's possible that we in the U.S. could be
- > moving toward a multi-party system.
-
- As long as we don't get a parliamentary system. I'd hate to see the
- "major" parties fighting over the nazi's 1 seat or the christian extremists 1
- seat or the communists 1 seat in order to get a working majority.
-
- > As far as I know, and I haven't seen any stats on this, the
- > Libertarian Party is comprised primarily of wealthy people who don't
- > want the government to stop them from doing harmful things (e.g.
- > environmental degradation) with their property.
-
- Untrue. If you don't have the stats, why make that assumption?
-
- Brett
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