Comments on: No free lunch http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/10/27/no-free-lunch/ Current political events, business, real estate, financial and economic news, trends and, above all, the Future. Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Boo Hoo http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/10/27/no-free-lunch/comment-page-2/#comment-43155 Boo Hoo Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:45:03 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/10/27/no-free-lunch/#comment-43155 Boo frickin hoo. You are an arrogant self centred person. Halton voters clearly made a big error. They will correct it though. You think you are bigger than the whole. Rack up your pension while you can! Boo frickin hoo. You are an arrogant self centred person. Halton voters clearly made a big error. They will correct it though. You think you are bigger than the whole. Rack up your pension while you can!

]]> By: Richard Harvey http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/10/27/no-free-lunch/comment-page-2/#comment-42856 Richard Harvey Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:42:03 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/10/27/no-free-lunch/#comment-42856 Garth, you're getting a lot of flack here that you don't deserve... I have the sense that you will continue being outspoken no matter how many clueless clods deem you to be a "whiner" or any such thing, so I have no worries... but did wish to communicate my support. What you do takes courage. Garth, you’re getting a lot of flack here that you don’t deserve… I have the sense that you will continue being outspoken no matter how many clueless clods deem you to be a “whiner” or any such thing, so I have no worries… but did wish to communicate my support. What you do takes courage.

]]> By: Janet Neilson http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/10/27/no-free-lunch/comment-page-2/#comment-42740 Janet Neilson Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:42:45 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/10/27/no-free-lunch/#comment-42740 Garth, with respect to your response to Stephen Taylor - there are many different kinds of (big C) Conservatives - you don't even have to be (small c) conservative to be Conservative - but conservatives believe in certain things, just like libertarians do, because it's conservatism and libertarianism are philosophies and not political groups. While being in favour of a gun registry and opposed to marijuana legalization obviously don't make you a bad person or a bad Conservative (in fact they probably make you a fairly good conservative), but it's awfully hard to be a libertarian when you're in favour of government intervention in parts of an individual's life that really have no effect on anyone else. There are fairly fundamental things that you need to believe in to be considered a libertarian. In the same way that being in favour of raising taxes to spend on something like affirmative action or funding something like Greenpeace makes your political philosophy distinctly non-conservative, being opposed to something like deregulating someone's property or legalizing marijuana in the interest of the "public good" make you distinctly non-libertarian. Garth, with respect to your response to Stephen Taylor – there are many different kinds of (big C) Conservatives – you don’t even have to be (small c) conservative to be Conservative – but conservatives believe in certain things, just like libertarians do, because it’s conservatism and libertarianism are philosophies and not political groups.

While being in favour of a gun registry and opposed to marijuana legalization obviously don’t make you a bad person or a bad Conservative (in fact they probably make you a fairly good conservative), but it’s awfully hard to be a libertarian when you’re in favour of government intervention in parts of an individual’s life that really have no effect on anyone else.

There are fairly fundamental things that you need to believe in to be considered a libertarian. In the same way that being in favour of raising taxes to spend on something like affirmative action or funding something like Greenpeace makes your political philosophy distinctly non-conservative, being opposed to something like deregulating someone’s property or legalizing marijuana in the interest of the “public good” make you distinctly non-libertarian.

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