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[–] [email protected] 142 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

2015:

Like other Republicans, Paul would repeal Obamacare, partially privatize Social Security, move Medicare to a " premium support" system for future retirees, and block-grant Medicaid and food stamps. But he's also proposed budget cuts of 20 percent or more to NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and the EPA — and cuts of 60 percent or more to the National Science Foundation, State Department, and Interior Department, among many others. Plus he's proposed eliminating the Departments of Energy and Education entirely. "It's the most detailed expression of what a libertarian approach to budgeting would look like to date," Matthews writes.

Off to a great start!

[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'll ask that guy, if I ever want to make a country as shit as possible for everyone but the rich.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The rich don't stay rich without peasants to work for them and buy their shit. If everyone else dies or leaves, the rich are in trouble too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

That's why they're so keen on AI

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Leaving likely won't be much of a problem since you won't have enough money to leave either. Dying on the other hand....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Most people have two feet they can use to move around

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

"But John Galt says we can make a rich person utopia if we want to!"

Just in case the sarcasm wasn't clear: objectivism dumb.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, start terraforming other planets please... but don't use money to do it, I want the money. I'll give it to my friends instead, but please go terraform other planets for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Other than Mars, I'm curious as to what other planets (plural, his words) he thinks could be terraformed. Venus is too damn hot, mercury is too close to the sun, and the rest are gas giants.

Is he proposing to colonise planets beyond our solar system?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Or they just want to make Space(X) Stations. Make them all free market economies, so they can just vent you to the 'verse when you miss your rent payment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People are thinking about planets but there are potential habitable satellites or moons in the solar system. One of Jupiter's moon, Callisto, has surface water and potentially habitable by terraforming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yes, but he said planetS and moons

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

No, see, he gives $1 billion to his friends so that they can put $1m toward terraforming other planets

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Libertarian": zero mention of the DoD budget.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Dude is not a libertarian, he just likes to think he is. He's just another "small government" republican.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

DoE is responsible for maintaining american nukes, military is not having it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I love that you don't even have to specify which department of "E" that is, you need both for that purpose

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

He wants to terraform planets with no spatial budget? What does he propose, sending a flask of germs with a trébuchet?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

He seems more like the catapult type to me