I think that a growing population of young people will need to hear the ideas of a Mises and Rothbard before their adult parents can decide for them what they should pay attention to. I know that this sounds disrespectful, but sometimes the youth has to ignore their elders.

I gained a healthy suspicion for the wisdom of the elderly while in Canada, something that seems reinforced in college today. Of course, we are told that the elderly know more, are wiser, and have more common sense.

What I found out (but couldn’t prove until I was old enough to read and understand books on political economy) was that old people really don’t know squat. Members of the AARP, they want increases in my taxes in order to pay for their lazy and inept ability to save money for retirement. They are often dogmatically liberal in regards to their precious benefits, and uninformed dolts. They also often make horrible customers, demanding special treatment and taking for granted a young man’s hospitality.

You could call Canada a nation of young people that acts and thinks like oldies – for all the wrong reasons.

Ironically, this will be a very bad thing for Canada. The U.S. has long been Canadas big government enabler. It provides a pressure relief valve in health care (which is the only thing keeping socialized medicine in the country moderately functional) because so many Canadians can come to the U.S for treatment. Safe and secure in the U.S.’s shadow, Canada has spent little to nothing on defense for decades, allowing ever more largesse. Canada’s best and brightest (be they actors, physicians, or businessmen) emigrate to the U.S. instead of staying at home. These industrious people are the type to demand new dialogue on the direction of the country. Instead of doing so they simply leave. What’s left behind is happy to suck at the nanny state teat. There will be much crying and knashing of teeth in the Great White North if they lose their sponsor.

Sorry for the long post.

Surely,
“My people perish for lack of knowledge.”

[Jonah Goldberg has a soul?–IM]

The means are the end;
winners do not cheat;
cheaters cannot win.
A short term gain?
A pragmatic reason?
Sure, just as sure as sin
(has pleasure for a season.)

Some people might forget that America is becoming like Canada, not the other way around.

The liberals have won Canada. They are facing some mild conservative arguments, but the Canadians are about as unbiased as, well, liberals.

They are a hopeless, apathetic bunch. They generally see things wrong with the liberal establishment, but become hysterical or angry when given capitalist solutions to their Statist problem.

What they don’t understand is economic theory, and simple ethics. Social justice as a body politic pervades there, and they dont see themselves as individuals, but rather, as a giant lump of mass.

Basically, the majority of them are sheep. Who cares if they vote more efficiently for the next troll in office?