Page 4-Friday, August 1, 1980-The Michigan Daily Opinions The Michigan Daily Ninety Years of Ed oil (Fred in Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Feds snub city Fei*ffe t t M%"F~ K V Oi FYSAVi 4 ll k$ SI FRAME RE0T5 K-rAV6 R-l "TO Cw1W19O95m . III ' =T O~l IFA~7 doa.bi. rM E- HE EVIDENCE has been presented, the argu- '' ' E ments put forth, and the verdict is in: Ann Ar- bor will not be receiving any federal assistance for LETTERS TO THE DAILY: the damage it received in a severe storm which ripped through the city July 16. With a budget that is already tight, and with no excess to work with, i er a the city will be hardpressed to pay for the clean-up, which is expected to continue for another two This county was one of the hardest hit in the state. The storm did an estimated $10 million To The Daily: damage to public and private property, left Barry Conmoner's assertion Republi thousands without power for several days, and that the Citizens' Party is to the to sacr downed hundreds of trees and power lines. It has I Democrats "as the Libertarians halfwa3 been estimated that the cost of the cleanup will be are to Republicans" was false larger as high as $13,000. and misleading.While it is remove as hih as$130000.possibly true that most C.P. politici Already the storm has taken a b ig chunk out of members are disaffected busine the city's budget. Nearly one-third of the forestry Democrats, it is hardly true that interest department's annual allocation has been exhausted most Libertarians are former vocate by the storm clean-up. The Washtenaw County Republicans. In fact, Liber- libertie Road Commission estimates it will spend over Repusbicans socialists, ad side i $125,000 to clean up the roads, which will imperil course, lifelong Libertarians. We Friedr projects such as road maintenance. do not appeal to only one band in beliefs Governor Milliken has proclaimed the state a the political spectrum; we offer conduci disaster area, and by doing so, has made state an alternative to all the worn-out terfere assistance available to storm-ravaged cliches and dogmas of the con- of othe temporary statist political elites, coercio municipalities. But Milliken also states that the and those attracted to liberty with th state, by itself, cannot provide all the help needed come from every persuasion. (In coerced by local communities. passing, I mention that the L.P.'s the par The cost of cleaning up after the storm will reiental candiate used to be such a severely strain the city. And it is distressing that The vision that serves Liber- ciples there will most likely not be federal monies coming tarians is not an extreme form of alys- from Washington to help offset the costs of Republican ideology (as if either logical Tuesday's storm. Unfortunately, the city must suf- the Republicans o Democrats Thus fer because, as one federal official said, the ha ideology). The Republican probem cn b "sovedlocaly. Party has paid lip service to a problem can be "solved locally." free economyand the right of the i________________________ individual to Jive his own O life-and ditto the Democrats. But Republican freedom has J meant subsidies to chosen cor- porations and government-enfor- ced monopolies, and the j "freedom" to live one's life in the To The1 way that the state-legislated Read morality permits: en famille, discove Christian, patriotic, blooper heterosexual, and unstimulated. Mayb The Democrats differ mainly in cheek, 1 allowing slightly more moral County leeway, and in being busy lightly. throwing money at the poor to You: keep them in line, rather than op- its Ann ting for the Republican police- Actuall worship. Commoner is right that Lakes F there is a link between his sup- for the porters and the Democrats; the really q Y1) link is that he too wants the Com political control of almost Michig. everything, but with special em- diana, phasis on the economy. in this The Libertarian Party ad- year). vocates the-" thorough saw con -,d n ,depoliticization of life, the taining removal of state intervention glass-b from our personal, social, and metal c economic transactions and of ma relations. We do not advocate logging HR vwe f60 SND IpRE REarIl4-M.161* uS(;0em$A.4 .frfite&goverrnntetlintervention 'through ' ' ; ± r11/1P,! i toCti ( 1 111 o . ;: r" ."ji + rians are not Republicans ie economy. as the icans do (always willing ifice even this economic y-house for the sake of a defense budget), but the al of political power from ans and their favored as, union,tand special- t group leaders. We ad- the full extension of civil s, the elimination of out- nterference in the in- al's life, We believe that, in ch Hayek's words, "moral concerning matters of t which do not directly in- with the protected sphere r persons do not justify on." Few Republicans, eir now-apparent zeal for d, legislated morality (see rty platform) can claim stand, or even the prin- which would support any stand, and Democrats seem to fail to take it to its conclusions. the Libertarian vision, which is an enriched version of 19th-Century Liberalism (and the philosophy of the American Revolution) is not a derivative of Republican conservatism or Democratic liberalism. Rather, these two are splinters from a libertarian whole, united to a virulent conformism and collect- tivism. Commoner takes liberalism one step further to "economic democracy" (where the elected tyrants are all liberals or socialists, rather than liberals and conservatives). Libertarians reject the garrison state and the levelling welfare state-in the end, we reject the State, and work for its separation,dnot just from the church, not just from morality, but from the entire sphere of voluntary human activity. Let power-lovers play among them- selves-and laissez-nous faire! -David Stewart July 30 A A scoda County ooper corrected Daily: ing your paper today, I red in "Our Art Fair" a 'I would like to correct. be it was said tongue-in- but to the people of Oscoda , it would not be taken said, "Oscoda County has nual Tree Trunk Heave." y, it's called "The Great Forestry Exposition," and size of the community it's quite impressive. panies from all over an and parts of Ohio, In- and Wisconsin participate annual even( (the 21st this It has log-burlers, chain- ntests, display booths con- old fashioned weaving, lowing, horse-shoeing, rafts, quilts, etc. All kinds chinery pertaining to and timber are on display out the Oscoda County Park, where the Expo is held. The finale is on Saturday night af- ter dark when a parade of lighted floats pass down the river which can be viewed from a choice seat (on the ground) along the river bank. Thanks for taking the time to read this. -Joyce Dusseau Former Oscoda County Resident July 25 Cartoons frequently appear on both the left and right side of the page; they do not necessarily represent Daily opinions.