A Libertarian vs a Green

Here's a great debate between a Libertarian and a Green. It covers many of the current popular issues. Of course, the Libertarian wins the debate, but that's no surprise considering the Greens are complete socialists and everyone knows how well socialist governments do.

Here are some standout quotes on issues from Mike Kole, the libertarian.

On democracy

Democracy is often little more than two wolves and a sheep conspiring over what to have for dinner...

On good willed capitalists

That's redundant. No capitalist hates his customer. The capitalist who hates the customer suffiently loses the customer.

On parents who have to work multiple jobs to support kids.

The parents who chose to have children without the means to support them have chosen a hard life. By what right do people who make such choices suppose that they should not have to face a predictable outcome at the expense of someone else?

On outsourcing

I don't have a problem with outsourcing at all. What outsourcing does is allows people to find the lowest price possible for services. The issue of chasing the lowest price for labor is not a new one. Once again, go to school on British history. The British mercantilist policy was a protectionist one. It attempted to keep jobs and trade within Britain. It didn't work, and the beneficiary of this failed policy was the United States, with its pool of cheap, eager labor.

The United States is moving increasingly towards making the protectionist mistakes Britain made. The outcome of doing so will be predictable.

And here's Mike stating the best reason I have heard on why to vote for Kerry.

Kerry, only because it would cause gridlock. The GOP has told the American people for years that they were the party of smaller government, and if only they had the Congress and the White House... Alas. The GOP has the Congress and the White House, and government has grown faster and larger than ever before, at a rate that made FDR and LBJ look like deciples of Milton Friedman. Gimme that gridlock. Let Kerry and the Congress fight like dogs.