Comments on: He Asked

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:08:00 +0000

Mark Gendala, you’ve just publicly confessed to intellectual bankruptcy. You have no actual argument to offer in support of your position — so you resort to the threat of physical violence from those who demand that I be forced to purchase the product they make instead of the one I prefer.

This is very typical of statists of all sorts. Lacking any actual, valid arguments in support of their position, they can only resort to smears — “You are racist! — or character assassination — “You are stupid!” — or threats of physical violence — or completely unsupported claims — “Deregulation caused the recession!”.

By: MWG

MWG — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:26:00 +0000

“May I suggest the next time you come across an American tyre-industry worker, express you dismay at President Obama’s recent decision to protect his or hers $20 per hour job from $2 per hour Asian competition.”

I thought Obama was using the tariff to “protect” American consumers from dangerous Chinese tires…

By: BoscoH

BoscoH — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:04:00 +0000

Mark: Obama’s tyre tariff might “save” 3500 jobs, so the chance of running into an affected tyre worker are pretty slim. And you’re saying that these tyre workers are violent and have to be treated with economic kid gloves? By not protecting him from competition, I can expect an ass kicking, Yet, by making me pay more for tyres, he doesn’t expect the same in return? Seems like a strange balance of violence to me, considering my preference affects 3500 people, while his affects 300 million. Crocodile Dundee and Steve Erwin both hate those odds.

By: Mark Gendala

Mark Gendala — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:48:00 +0000

Hi – more power the Aussie expats… Greg, I’m delighted that you and rest of you happy campers have got your economics all figured-out. Obviously, your undoubted expertise on matters economical should now be put into practical use -

May I suggest the next time you come across an American tyre-industry worker, express you dismay at President Obama’s recent decision to protect his or hers $20 per hour job from $2 per hour Asian competition.

Warning!!! Chances are that a kick up your backside may be so hard that you could end-up in Australia far earlier then you’ve ever planned.

G’day
Mark

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:45:00 +0000

Let’s say that someone invents a device such that it transfers a body of knowledge equivalent to that obtained from a normal college education in 30 seconds after it is placed over a student’s head. While this would indeed be a misfortune for those of us who are professors and teachers, it would nevertheless be a great benefit to society, as innumerable educational resources would be used to do other things. What would the Mr. Mark _____ in Australia then do should such an invention be made? Would he stop the wheels of progress by prohibiting anyone from using such a device?