tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post100127415776312532..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: It's Time to Build a Welfare WallRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-19851170687263557112015-09-09T04:26:01.420-04:002015-09-09T04:26:01.420-04:00Joel and Stacey,
I don't vote and don't a...Joel and Stacey,<br /><br />I don't vote and don't advocate voting. Not sure what you are talking about.Matt@Occidentalism.orghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395220402283030311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-52945364937216086582015-09-09T04:23:44.629-04:002015-09-09T04:23:44.629-04:00OK, where does the state get its resources? You ar...OK, where does the state get its resources? You are talking about taking resources from me, not the state. Matt@Occidentalism.orghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395220402283030311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-87278107765012693302015-09-08T12:49:05.891-04:002015-09-08T12:49:05.891-04:00Matt@Occidentalism.org,
When has voting ever resu...Matt@Occidentalism.org,<br /><br />When has voting ever resulted in a Libertarian society?Joel and Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358321850797729998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-14266705364042589182015-09-06T23:32:32.744-04:002015-09-06T23:32:32.744-04:00@Matt
vs.what. Vs. authoritarian state control, ...@Matt<br /><br />vs.what. Vs. authoritarian state control, planning, and management of freedom of movement? Vs. carefully preserving the state's guns? This is what you advocate?<br /><br />This is not about achieving libertarian paradise. This is about disadvantaging the state, disempowering it, de-resourcing it. If even only 1/1,000,000th. This is the axis along which the decision Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-13894319474396645452015-09-04T21:42:52.752-04:002015-09-04T21:42:52.752-04:00The US has a unique history and culture based on f...The US has a unique history and culture based on freedom. Its not Venezuela. When Britain tried to retake the colonies, the colonialists didnt capitulate, they fought back. That spirit still lives in the US today, as evidenced from the articles and videos below:<br /><br />With Detroit’s Bankruptcy, Anarchists Have Begun Project “Free Detroit” – Starting a Community http://thestateweekly.com/Michael P. Shipleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13356960551292711676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-76173812585327581002015-09-04T09:38:06.829-04:002015-09-04T09:38:06.829-04:00"The more immigrants we can have diverting st..."The more immigrants we can have diverting state resources from state aggressive use to private non-aggressive use, the less capable of aggression the state is and the better off we will be. Open the gates."<br /><br />To quote bionic mosquito, "ha ha ha ha ha ha"<br /><br />Like all those people are going to leave you and your pocketbook alone.JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-44012868945106644022015-09-03T23:35:01.114-04:002015-09-03T23:35:01.114-04:00Lets apply the same principle to immigration as th...Lets apply the same principle to immigration as the minimum wage. When people demand a $15 minimum wage, libertarians answer "why not $50 dollars"?. So in relation to this migration thing, lets open the gates to 1 or 2 billion people. Lets see the libertarian paradise that eventuates.Matt@Occidentalism.orghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395220402283030311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-66759860028430665112015-09-03T23:31:55.812-04:002015-09-03T23:31:55.812-04:00Michael P. Shipley, when has a state collapse ever...Michael P. Shipley, when has a state collapse ever resulted in libertarianism? A collapse of this sort won't result in libertarianism, it will result in an ever expanding state looking to shore up its position.Matt@Occidentalism.orghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395220402283030311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-85240125867359549372015-09-03T23:29:52.107-04:002015-09-03T23:29:52.107-04:00I live in Australia. Some migrant groups from cert...I live in Australia. Some migrant groups from certain countries have up to 90% dependence on welfare.The more of them that come the more power they have in this ridiculous democracy that we have.<br /><br />Libertarians that think that libertatianism will be achieved by importing the worst of the third world are deluded. Matt@Occidentalism.orghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395220402283030311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-5956865014934461092015-09-03T16:05:58.194-04:002015-09-03T16:05:58.194-04:00And the burden on the infrastructure, like roads. ...And the burden on the infrastructure, like roads. Those immigrants are also awful drivers and cause a lot of accidents.JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-33640223499250233812015-09-03T16:04:40.626-04:002015-09-03T16:04:40.626-04:00Old Mexican. Are you originally from Mexico, yes o...Old Mexican. Are you originally from Mexico, yes or no? Do you support the right of property owners to defend and protect their private property, yes or no?JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-89897199769412451602015-09-03T09:53:06.389-04:002015-09-03T09:53:06.389-04:00─For certain, there will be objections to the met...─For certain, there will be objections to the methodology used in the study, but such arguments are only debating at the edges of the problem.─<br /><br />You think that? I don't think so. Methodology is important in this case because groups like the Center for Immigration Studies (an anti-immigration organization) pretends to argue for policy. Knowing the truth of matters IS important.<br /OldMexicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16111465436836633221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-43474045175928835102015-09-03T09:23:52.373-04:002015-09-03T09:23:52.373-04:00Re: Dave,
─Restricting the immigration of people ...Re: Dave,<br /><br />─Restricting the immigration of people who in the majority support welfare and government largess and redistribution as Latino immigrants do is the only realistic political solution.─<br /><br />Are you suggestion the government runs political purity tests on immigrants to let in only those that do not support a welfare state? Or are you saying that people of Latin American OldMexicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16111465436836633221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-35746145282017826522015-09-03T09:07:54.430-04:002015-09-03T09:07:54.430-04:00No one talks about the burden of public school cos...No one talks about the burden of public school costs to the community -- there is a tipping point -- where the number of children schooled to the illegal immigrants income becomes a subsidization -- and while no one I suspect counts this as a subsidy -- the Hispanic child producing population explosion has inescapable consequences.<br /><br />I am aware that public rather than private education Elliottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-21378074683050791892015-09-03T08:31:01.519-04:002015-09-03T08:31:01.519-04:00Libertarians are consistent about the non-initiati...Libertarians are consistent about the non-initiation of violence principle. Two places it does not work so well are international relations and free immigration. Countries do not live in a civilized confederation but in a state of nature. There are no courts or police to enforce fair rules. If you want to stop aggression such as in Crimea, you may have to accept all out war with a superpower,munchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498964698602636038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-81904904617978173522015-09-03T06:54:11.265-04:002015-09-03T06:54:11.265-04:00Check your premises. Your conclusion is backwards...Check your premises. Your conclusion is backwards. Because you've swallowed the cultural Kool-Aid in how you're thinking about the state. You need to pop a booster red pill.<br /><br />The state is not "us." The state is "them." The state's resources are no longer ours to control. Its resources are its to control. And are used by it to hurt us. For us to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-28852365695659920482015-09-03T05:05:46.035-04:002015-09-03T05:05:46.035-04:00Its the opposite. We should encourage everyone, il...Its the opposite. We should encourage everyone, illegal immigrants too, to take advantage of all the welfare they can get. Why? So eventually it bankrupts all the govts and free us from them. Its the only way to rid ourselves of the toxic socialism that has infected the US. Look at Detroit. Bankrupt. And by bankrupt I mean impotent. A bankrupt govt is an impotent govt. It cant enforced regs or Michael P. Shipleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13356960551292711676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-58085532016720276202015-09-02T21:07:19.488-04:002015-09-02T21:07:19.488-04:00Restricting the immigration of people who in the m...Restricting the immigration of people who in the majority support welfare and government largess and redistribution as Latino immigrants do is the only realistic political solution. Contrary to what Nowrasteh says there is no way to reform or eliminate welfare while importing millions more people who support it.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10579799109070553474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-68751717966711915342015-09-02T16:47:10.211-04:002015-09-02T16:47:10.211-04:00I believe the first step toward eliminating welfar...I believe the first step toward eliminating welfare is to stop screwing around with the currency.<br />A welfare wall will be just another failed Government program.Colombonoreply@blogger.com