This document outlines 8 policy proposals that aim to appeal to right-wing populism and libertarianism. They include: 1) empowering local police, 2) replacing public schools with private schools through vouchers, 3) removing homeless people from public spaces, 4) abolishing the Federal Reserve system and attacking large banks, 5) prioritizing American economic interests over foreign aid, 6) defending "family values" with less government involvement in families, 7) allowing prayer and religious symbols in public schools, and 8) forming populist coalitions on issues like pornography and abortion by decentralizing decision-making to local levels. The document argues these proposals are consistent with libertarianism and suggests alternative strategies for the libertarian movement.

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)e unleashed, and allowed to ental control. In the long run, heir paleo or traditionalist or
administer instant punish- his means ending public ither partners in a populist
ment, subject of course to li- chools, and replacing them :oalition, For example, on
ability when they are in error. ~y private schools. But we amily values, take such vexed
5. Take Back the nust realize that voucher and ,roblems as pornography,
Streets: Get Rid of the Bums. wen tax credit schemes are wostitution, or abortion. Here,
Again: unleash the cops to lot, despite Milton Friedman, iro-legalization and pro-
clear the streets of bums and ransitional demands on the :hoice libertarians should be
vagrants. Where will they go? lath to privatized education; willing to compromise on a
Who cares? Hopefully, they nstead, they will make matters jecentralist stance; that is, to
will disappear, that is, move vorse by fastening govern- md the tyranny of the federal
from the ranks of the petted nent control more totally upon :ourts, and to leave these
and cosseted bum class to the he private schools. Within the Iroblems up to states and
ranks of the productive mem- Iublic school system, the only jetter yet, localities and
bers of society. ;ound alternative is decen- ieighborhoods, that is, to
6. Abolish the Fed; At- ralization, and back to local, 'community standards."
tack the Banksters. Money and :ommunity neighborhood
banking are recondite issues. :ontrol of the schools. Alternative Libertarian
But the realities can be made Further: We must reject Strategies
vivid: the Fed is an organized mce and for all the Modal A. Corridors of Power
cartel of banksters, who are Abertarian view that all gov- There are two alter-
creating inflation, ripping off xnment-operated resources native strategies to the fore-
the public, destroying the nust be cesspools. We must going for the libertarian
savings of the average Ameri- :ry, short of ultimate movement. One is the Koch-
can. The hundreds of billions xivatization, to operate gov- Crane strategy, the strategy
of taxpayer handouts to S&L xnment facilities in a manner of the Cat0 Institute, Citizens
banksters will be chicken-feed nost conducive to a business, for a Sound Economy, et al. It
compared to the coming col- 3r to neighborhood control. is the antipode of a right-wing
lapse of the commercial But that means: that the pub- populist strategy: it is the
banks. lic schools must allow prayer, strategy of cozying up to the
7. America First. A key and we must abandon the Corridors of Power, of lobby-
point, and not meant to be absurd leit-atheist interpreta- ing and influencing the top
seventh i n priority. The tion of the First Amendment elites, of nudging them gently
American economy is not only that "establishment of religion" onto a more libertarian path.
in recession; it is stagnating. means not allowing prayer in It is clear that this strategy,
The average family is worse public schools, or a creche in pursued by Koch, et al. since
off now than it was two de- a schoolyard or a public the early 1980s, is precisely
cades ago. Come home square at Christmas. We must the analog of the strategy pur-
America. Stop supporting return to common sense, and sued by Official Washington
bums abroad. Stop all foreign original intent, in constitutional conservatism during this same
aid, which is aid to banksters interpretation. era, and starting also at the
and their bonds and their ex- So far: every one of these beginning of the Reagan ad-
port industries. Stop right-wing populist programs ministration. As in the case of
gloabaloney, and let's solve is totally consistent with a Official Conservatism, the
our problems at home. hard-core libertarian position. strategy has been successful
8. Defend Family Val- But all real-world politics is in terms of acquiring respect-
ues. Which means, get the coalition politics, and there are ability, official contacts, jobs
State out of the family, and other areas where libertarians in Washington, and in gen-
replace State control by pa- might well compromise with eral, pleasant associations
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