found online by Raymond
Classic libertarianism. Poverty as a natural state. Selfishness as a virtue.
From Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives:
Reverend Randy Van Doornik, pastor of the North Reformed Church in Newark, New Jersey eloquently confirms why a nation’s government is an extension of that society’s dominant ethical principles. In a New Jersey Star-Ledger letter titled Sanders breaks barriers at Liberty, but why the barrier?, Van Doornik provides an exclamation point to Bernie Sanders’s call in a September 2015 speech to an audience of Christian conservatives to put their Christian ethics where their political mouths are. Van Doornik writes, in part:
I also hold rational self-interest to be the core of sensible morality, but that does not lead to an every-man-for-himself sort of ideology. Our well-being is tied to the well-being of others in concrete ways and we have a certain debt to the society that protects us and our rights and enables us to better pursue happiness. To ignore all of this suggests either irrational self-interest or rational self-destruction on the part of libertarians like LaFerrara.