What does libertarianism have to offer the poor? (youtube)

[emazur]

cliff notes: the ability to create their own wealth by not having to climb insurmountable barriers to entry, and the bargaining power this gives them for better working conditions and/or pay b/c employers have to compete with self employment as a viable form of labor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvaVLNCj3fU&list=UUByO0RpfcUgWZUtDNW4tNdQ&index=1&feature=plcp

[better-dead-than-fed]

By de-regulating the legal industry, libertarianism would make affordable, competent lawyers available to the poor. Cf. "Why Does the Public Tolerate the Bar-Association Monopolies? (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?386311-Why-Does-the-Public-Tolerate-the-Bar-Association-Monopolies)"

More generally, libertarianism would make everything more affordable, by lowering the costs of production.

I've never understood the criticism of "trickle-down economics".

[acptulsa]

'The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow's hands.'--Will Rogers

This isn't about trickle-down. This is about creating wealth in the basement so it can percolate up. A level playing field and a sane legal code allow enterprise, and enterprise made this nation, then made this nation the greatest. Only corporatism that concentrated money at the top and squelched opportunity at the bottom--by requiring every business, whether it employs thirty thousand or three, to retain fourteen lawyers--could bring it down.

It isn't about trickling, tinkling or any of that trash. If you think brats are most often motivated, you're mistaken. The greatness of this nation is at the 'bottom', not the 'top'. It's about percolation, and that can't happen without opportunity.

[Seraphim]

Opportunity and freedom. The rest is all you.