Category: Politics
Capitalism goes on the offence (About time)
Here’s a nice site, a landing page for an ad that’s making the rounds online. Be sure to watch the video at the end. A rather telling and graphically attractive way to make the case that capitalism = health + wealth + freedom + peace = happiness.
Stimulus Impact: Zero, or Less Than Zero?
Interesting article with good sources to show that stimulus hurt recovery short and long term.
Maxime Bernier is a breath of fresh air
Maxime Bernier is a breath of fresh air. He’s about as conservative as my Aunt Fanny (she’s a libertarian too). And if he ever becomes leader of the Conservative Party, a very long shot given that their membership is now content to be led by a hypocritical, traitorous dictator, he would doubtless disappoint.
Why? Because in a system where the constitution offers no effective constraints on the state’s power to interfere in our lives, the incentive for gangs of special interests to pool sufficient political capital to ensure that their interests are served is simply too strong for any principled politician to effectively resist.
What Bernier is advocating is, in today’s Canada, revolutionary. We have never experienced revolution in this country and one leader, however correct he may be in identifying the need, is not going to ignite one.
I remain convinced that the proper course is to passively oppose the state, mostly by ignoring it as much as possible, until such time as technology provides an effective means of reducing it to insignificance.
How? That is a post for another day but the short version is that once we live all or most of our lives in virtual worlds of our own choosing, we will choose worlds where liberty is the fundamental political (with a very small “p”) principle. Even the dubious value of the state in providing security will be superceded by our ability to escape a thief or an assailant as quick as a thought.
Bring on the singularity . . . or the millennium.
Withdraw your support of an illegal state | DONT VOTE
Withdraw your support of an illegal state | DONT VOTE.
I just wrote this as a comment on Maxime Bernier’s blog.
Wolves, we need more wolves
National Post editorial board: Save the Liberty Summer Seminar | Full Comment | National Post
“Strong and free” eh? Canada is just a sophisticated fascist state. The government owns and controls whatever they want to, they just don’t heard large groups into death camps – yet.
D. A.: I think the key word there is “yet”. The only democratic part about our government, as i see it, is that we do have the right to vote for whichever party gets the right to control and manipulate every aspect of Canada and it’s people.
Me: I couldn’t agree more. Voting has become a ploy used by politicians to pull the wool over the eyes of those satisfied to behave like sheep.
D.A: In which case we need more wolves in sheep’s clothing. What percentage of people in our government do you think really cares about “Canada” when making decisions that affect every man, woman, and child in this country?
Me: Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I’ve seen it up close.
1. Highly principled people decide to run for office to make real change.
2. They conclude that the best way to effect change is to become the government.
3. They start to favour electoral expediency over principle.
4. They win power but only by becoming what they initially opposed.
It’s not going to change until a strong enough segment of the population agree to ban the use of force from all human relations, except against those who initiate its use. Otherwise politics is just about who can build the largest gang to force others to do what they want. Politics is about justifying the unjustifiable use of force against those who disagree with you. This makes the state the enemy of all those who value freedom and all who do should oppose it by all means short of jeopardizing their own life, liberty or property or those of innocent others. That’s how we can be the wolves in sheep’s clothing.
On the Census Debate
It is the fatal conceit of statists that efficient central planning is possible with sufficient data. No matter how much data they collect it can never be more than a tiny fraction of the data held within the minds of individuals dispersed throughout society. The reason is because words are imperfect symbols and we always know much more than we can communicate to others.
Thus the most efficient way to make use of resources (capital) is to have no central planning at all but to allow each individual maximal freedom to pursue his rational self-interest. That is why a laissez-faire, free market capitalist political economy will always out-compete a more centrally planned one. It will always produce more wealth and consequently a better standard of life for its members.
Thus central planning is “fatal” to those on the margins who would have lived if there had been a little more food, a little better health care, etc. A compulsory census, more so what it represents, literally kills people. Central planners are at best well-intentioned but ignorant murderers.
Laissez-faire economy? You’ve got to be kidding
Two excellent articles on the recent economic crisis and it’s real cause – government.
Laissez-faire economy? You’ve got to be kidding
The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Financial Crisis
DONT VOTE: Stop Playing the Game – It’s Fixed!
DONT VOTE: Stop Playing the Game Canada – It’s Fixed!
This new website is designed to serve as a rallying point for those of us who are fed up with the lying hypocrites of every political persuasion and have resolved to deny them what they absolutely must have to survive – our votes.
DONT VOTE! It’s your duty as an honest, hard-working Canadian to stop supporting these scoundrels any longer.
DONT VOTE! Not because you don’t care, but because you care too much to waste your vote on thieves, bullies, and liars.
Fox News? No. Fair debate? Yes
In this story the usually reasonable Lorrie Goldstein sets out a strong case for the benefit of having yet another TV news channel. Anyone who still believes the media is unbiased is incredibly naive – the CBC worst of all. For example, on the fundamental issue of big interventionist government vs small, pro free-market government, how could we even expect a media corporation where 100% of its employees are 100% dependent on a massive ($1 billion is still massive isn’t it?) tax-funded subsidy for their jobs to be unbiased?
So, until government gets out of the business of journalism and journalists discover the value of simply reporting honestly and as objectively as possible, the best option is for their to be competition between the snidely and dishonestly leftist media and the openly and honestly right-wing media.
So let the games begin. I look forward to a network where all the sacred cows of Canadian socialism are bashed with a dose of cold reality. The result should be plenty of beef for everyone.
Fox News? No. Fair debate? Yes: Goldstein | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun.
It’s easier to have an opinion than to rely on it
Everyone complains about the health care system in Canada. We even make fun of it. For example,
Subject: TWO DIFFERENT DOCTORS’ OFFICES
Two patients limp into two different medical clinics with the same complaint. Both have trouble walking and appear to require a hip replacement.
The FIRST patient is examined within the hour, Is x-rayed the same day and has a time booked for surgery the following week.
The SECOND sees his family doctor after waiting 3 weeks for an appointment, then waits 8 weeks to see a specialist, then gets an x-ray, which isn’t reviewed for another week
And finally has his surgery scheduled for a month from then.Why the different treatment for the two patients?
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The FIRST is a Golden Retriever.
The SECOND is a Senior Citizen.
Next time take me to a vet!
Truer words were never spoken but why the difference? Because the senior citizen (unless he’s a politician or a politician’s friend) is forced to rely on the public health care system while the dog benefits from an entirely private system.
Pit a public system vs. a private system and the private one will always provide better results for the same money or the same results for less money – usually both.
People are too content to criticize something but then sit back and accept it as if it just has to be that way, like the weather. Public systems are not artifacts of nature, they are relics of a failed philosophy. If we place any value in our own judgment we ought to act on it and not just complain.