http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html

Lets see where you all stand...

According to your answers, your political philosophy is left-liberal.

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 90%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 60%.

do i get prize now ?

that was the most ridiculasly short one of those ever

and it doesnt represent it right at all

but im a left libral

all the way

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 100%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 0%.

Originally posted by Asguard
that was the most ridiculasly short one of those ever

and it doesnt represent it right at all

but im a left libral

all the way

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 100%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 0%.

With that score, you appear to be an ideological socialist...

IWhat would you rather have it represented you as, Asguard?

actully i guess thats right:p

i dont think goverments should interfear with private inderviduals unless they are hurting another indervidual

and i dont trust companys

i guess i take that back

*blushes*

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 70%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 30%

Left Liberal. Let's give it another shot. I shall fudge the results.

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 40%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 80%.

Right Conservative.

Libertarian 35.75 %
Left-liberal 18.55 %
Centrist 30.10 %
Right-Conservative 7.16 %
Authoritarian 8.43 %

Left-Liberal
Left-Liberals prefer self-government in personal matters and central decision-making on economics. They want government to serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for economic equality.

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 60%.

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 50%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 50%.

Left-liberal

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 90%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 40%.

Libertarian 35.75 %
Left-liberal 18.56 %
Centrist 30.10 %
Right-Conservative 7.16 %
Authoritarian 8.43 %

whoo go me.

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 70%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 40%.


Damned a Centrist, with a left liberal leaning. Anyways all those are so limiting.

Libertarian 35.75 %
Left-liberal 18.56 %
Centrist 30.10 %
Right-Conservative 7.16 %
Authoritarian 8.43 %

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 40%.

My pleasure to contribute.
what a surprize. now what? a medal? (medal, please.)

* Libertarianism

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 90%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 0%.

There is some serious bias in this test. First it is run by Libertarians. Answering in positive to all the questions leads to an easy diagnosis of libertarianism. The questions are vague and the conclusions tainted.

Furthermore there are serious deficiencies in ascribing the term self-government. They define free trade as being of this character when in fact most free trade agreements include requirements than tariffs. So they need to clarify this position. They are also very shaky in the territory of user fees. They might mean tolls such as those that restricted migration earlier in this century something that seems out of character for their motto and in fact in direct opposition to the fifth question of the first set. How else would this be applied to compensate for road work? There is obviously a bankruptcy of even the lowest level of thought in these instances.

They also do not explain exactly how minimum wage laws cause unemployment. This seems to be an assumed factor. This would have been better stated as "Repeal minimum wage laws." Disregarding that detail who really wants to repeal minimum wage??? It is a fact this standard is insufficient to support most families, so then how could we do with less?Also the first set is full of statements that few would disagree.

Finally there is the issue of maybe. It doesn't fit well into a system designed to apply bipolar pressures into a political mode. It says nothing of overriding inclinations and often makes little sense in the context. Indeed this test is deeply flawed.

BTW I am Liberal with 100% of the first set and 40% of the second.

60 and
60

Centrist

how can things like welfare be user pay?

My score: 100% left liberal


"Now, there are consistent libertarians, people like Murray Rothbard [American academic]--and if you just read the world that they describe, it's a world so full of hate that no human being would want to live in it. This is a world where you don't have roads because you don't see any reason why you should cooperate in building a road that you're not going to use: if you want a road, you get together with a bunch of other people who are going to use that road and you build it, then you charge people to ride on it. If you don't like the pollution from somebody's automobile, you take them to court and you litigate it. Who would want to live in a world like that? It's a world built on hatred."
-Noam Chomsky
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky pg. 200, paragraph 5

Originally posted by Teg
They also do not explain exactly how minimum wage laws cause unemployment. This seems to be an assumed factor. This would have been better stated as "Repeal minimum wage laws." Disregarding that detail who really wants to repeal minimum wage??? It is a fact this standard is insufficient to support most families, so then how could we do with less?Also the first set is full of statements that few would disagree.

It is a well known facts of economics that minimum wage laws, to some degree, cause unemployment amongst poorly educated or un-skilled workers.

The minimum wage is so high, that an unskilled worker's limited productivity would not bring the company any profit (wage higher than productivity - ergo hiring unskilled workers is an expense). Therefore, they would not hire him/her.

But they introduced minimum wage stuff here in the UK and unemployment didnt jump. Plus you have to also weigh the benefits of bringing up the bottom line.

Not very scientific but it seems i'm an authortarian.

so don't argue with me or I'll have you shot!!!

According to your answers, your political philosophy is libertarian.

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 100%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 70%.

I guess that is about right. I wouldn't know, I avoid politics like the plague.

That is a very spurious argument. The fact of minimum wage causing unemployment is only a fact in the same way that tax cuts create jobs. There is no data to support either of these claims, just a bunch of rhetoric.

In the historic sense there is a ton of evidence to support the reverse argument that a lack of minimum wage causes unemployment. Think about the great depression. Without wage protection agricultural titans hired and fired laborers at whimsy with the specific intent of creating mass unemployment. Why? Because if your job is on the line you will work harder for more. The same thing happens today in the underground garment industry and third world jobs.

The idea that unskilled workers have limited productivity is also dead wrong. Any product you can think of has at least some component created by "unskilled" labor. Unskilled just means a lack of school, a very desirable hiring trait because of the fact that they have a lower pay scale. In actuality the unskiled worker does all the work and receives none of the pay. All management does is hinder longterm productivity. They set quotas for production and fire damaged workers (pregnant, injured, unionized, etc.). These cause a climate of fear and concerted efforts from the laborers to hinder production. The laborers do not feel the profits and thus have no incentive to be productive.