The Real News discusses the Ron Paul Revolution with Reason Mag's Matt Welch

[Knightskye]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gKwrbBC1Vg

Good stuff. :D

[gls]

Who is Matt Welch? (http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2008/04/02/matt-welch-neocon-mouthpiece/)


“I’m a liberal. I take liberalism to mean a belief in policy geared toward easing poverty, extending rights to every walking human who hasn’t utterly forfeited them, getting the government out of the morality business, regulating markets judiciously, ensuring the pervasive yet hopefully efficient delivery of non-market goods such as education, health care and national defense, and otherwise having the sense to let the private sector handle private concerns.”

How someone who believes in "regulating markets judiciously" and considers education and health care to be "non-market goods" came to represent the libertarian movement is beyond me.

[constituent]

extending rights to every walking human who hasn’t utterly forfeited them,

wtf does that mean?

[Knightskye]

Who is Matt Welch? (http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2008/04/02/matt-welch-neocon-mouthpiece/)



How someone who believes in "regulating markets judiciously" and considers education and health care to be "non-market goods" came to represent the libertarian movement is beyond me.

I googled part of that quote:
"I take liberalism to mean a belief in policy geared toward easing"

The only link that came up was the American Conservative article you linked to.

So... it could be what he said in his blog, but I don't have any proof of that.

But he's not talking about himself. He's talking about Ron Paul.