Do you want a nanny state?

Question

Wayne Allyn Root, the Vice Presidential candidate running with Bob Barr says:

"I will end the Nanny State. I will give personal responsibility back to the American people. The decisions on how to live your lives are yours. The decision on vaccinations for your children is yours. The decision on what to eat is yours. The decision on what to watch on your computer or television is yours. The decision to own a gun is yours. The decision to smoke or drink or gamble is yours. The decision to wear a helmet on a motorcycle is yours- as long as you accept personal responsibility. The job of government is not to protect you from yourself. Or to prosecute victimless crimes. Big Brother will no longer be open for business under my watch."

--Wayne Allyn Root

http://rootforamerica.com/home/wherestands.php

Answer 1

Lets hope so....A sober person has trouble answering the captions intended for drunk individuals.

Answer 2

No but not all the things on his list is government protecting us from ourselves, some are protecting the public. Vaccinations in particular is protecting  everyone from epidemics  that can not get stared in an immune population. Babies  are not born immune and can not be vaccinated at birth and some people can  not be vaccinated because of health problems. The problem with Libertarians is that the take  good ideas to such extremes. they turn them into bad ones.

Answer 3

The real question in response to this absurd quote is "do you want utter chaos". It has nothing to do with nannying. It about common sense. Vaccinations? omg... disease would be rampant. Why don't we allow people to breed rabid dogs and give them "freedom". NO LAWS YAYYY. cept... it wouldn't be safe to walk the streets!

Answer 4

Sounds great, but it will never happen.  The government entire reason to exist would be gone. There would be little need to bribe the congress or threaten the citizens if we could make our own choices.

Answer 5

Sounds like a d**n fine idea.  My only problem with the Libertarian party is in the party application.  That part about acknowledging that you don't approve of force to affect political change is well....un-American.  It is how we started after all.