Any Libertarians on here?

Closing the border to Mexico should be one of our top priorities.

 

Couldn't you accomplish the same thing by just sending 1000 Republicans to Zimbabwe?

 

Economics isn't a zero sum game. For someone to become rich, someone else does not have to become poor. Vice versa.

 

For the most part, I agree with that completely.

 

I think most every reasonable person would agree with that. Which makes it a mystery who so many people keep voting Republican or Democrat.

 

Correct, so long as that rich person is printing his own money in his basement.

 

Watch a libertarian get on the air and make some of their case and you'll see why. In theory, libertarianism is great, but the party has a lot of kooks calling themselves candidates who only focus one or two really stupid issues instead of trying to actually educate people.

 

Eh? You really need a lesson in very basic economics if you seriously think that's true.

 

Call her up - Prof. Diana Richards Doyle, University of Minnesota, 612-624-8320. You can give her a lesson in very basic economics.

 

Haha.. slick move.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I think the Patriot Act shows more than enough people don't care about personal freedom.

 

Let's take your ebay site, for example.

You earn money by referring people to ebay.

Ebay makes money by having someone bid on an auction
You make a little money by referring the person to ebay
The person who sells the item makes a little money by selling their product
The person who buys it gets what they were looking for.

who is poorer in this exchange?

 

What about the people working dirt cheap to make the things being sold on ebay?

 

You assume he is (or doing so unwillingly or a multitude of other things), first off. And second, you assume its a cheap product.

 

What about me?!? I am the perfect speciman of humanity, yet I cannot sell my sperm on E-Bay

 

They must be in on that liberal conspiracy

j/k

 

I can't sell my disattached thumb on ebay either, but I can sell it for $100 on the street, so some lady can stick it in her wendy's chili

 

It's not really an assumption.. it's been proven many times over that people work for pennies. A pair of nikes cost $2.00 make.. you think they're paying the works $10/hour? . And secondly.. look at ebay... a good portion of it is nock-off cheap junk.

 

This is about who is getting poorer as a result of the transaction not about crappy wages in other parts of the world.

 

hmm.. i thought it was more or less about the "everyone can be rich" and the "nobody has to be poor" thing... I guess I got lost...

 

Its not about that at all. No one claims that everyone benefits the same from a given event; the point was that no one is actually -worse off- from the transaction.