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Hello. This is my first post. I don't know if people do introductions here but I'm going to do one now. Here is my brief manifesto that I thought-up in a couple minutes. It's rather hard to find non-extreme left wingers at university (particularly among my professors!), so I hope I can have some good discussions here and learn a few things. --- Well there is no point denying it - I'm a small "l" libertarian. I find that my philosphy differs from some other "libertarians" in the areas of defense, religion, and education however. I fully support defense/war against...

Wow- enough is enough. Isn't there anything else going on? Can't the mods pull all the Schiavo stuff into one area. I am burned out on Schiavo.I need help.

With the turning of every year, we expect our lives to improve. As long as the economy continues to grow, we imagine, the world will become a more congenial place in which to live. There is no basis for this belief. If we take into account such factors as pollution and the depletion of natural capital, we see that the quality of life peaked in the United Kingdom in 1974 and in the United States in 1968, and has been falling ever since. We are going backwards. The reason should not be hard to grasp. Our economic system depends upon...