Comments on: Libertarian Files to Run Against Ron Paul in 14th District, Texas

By: libertariangirl

libertariangirl — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:39:45 +0000

Hey Bruno. Of course I know all that, and if every country was in on it, open borders would be the way to go. It benefits everyone.

However, just having the United States open and no other country doesn’t move us more towards open borders. It would be better if welfare was not available to illegal immigrants who might move for the sake of it rather than for jobs. You can’t have open borders when you have welfare, that’s basic economics (unless everyone has the exact same system, of course).

Get the whole world in on it, and I’m fine with it. But until the EU lets me in without a visa, there’s no reason that Mexican immigrants should be allowed in the United States without one. That’s not free and open borders anyway.

By: Bruno Della Motta

Bruno Della Motta — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:55:03 +0000

Wow! I thought you were a liberal (in the original sense, as in Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, &c, or “libertarian” like you americans like to say, but I don’t like the term ‘coz it sounds like people who try to liberate others and I don’t believe anyone can liberate people, except themselves). I agree with almost everything that you say but this immigrant issue give me the creeps. Everyone that has learned a lil’ economics knows that workes are factor of production like any other (as capital and land). In a true liberal — read libertarian — world, there would be no fences because there is no frontiers. A business should be free to decide who we wants to hire and is entirely his decision to ponder about the trade-off between the price of the worker and the quality. Immigration restriciont is protectionism — worker force subsidies — and should be banned in any true liberal/libertarian world as frontiers, countries, polices and everything that is part of a state. I hope one day you become a true libertarian. Read Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom” to understand where protectionism, subsidies, government and central plannig (laws as part of planning) leads to. Of course you’re entitled to support a nationalist working force barriers law — I think everyone should be allowed to support everything –, just don’t call yourself libertarian, but the opposite.

By: libertariangirl

libertariangirl — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:35:34 +0000

Thanks, Wickle! Actually, Tom Hanks and Jay Leno stop by regularly, but they just haven’t made comments yet…

I have seen Elizabeth Edwards make some appearances on a few blogs, perhaps she’ll find her way over here.

By: Wickle

Wickle — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:38:11 +0000

LG, I have to give you credit … you’re getting some serious interest on your page, aren’t you? Eric Dondero, Eugene Flynn’s son … the biggest celebrity-type I’ve got was Earl Dodge’s son.

Kudos to you.

By: libertariangirl

libertariangirl — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:54:46 +0000

Fantastic! I was wary because his email address was defeatronpaul@something.com, which seemed quite hostile.

I hope that Ron Paul goes to the White House and your dad can take his district!

By: Eugene Flynn

Eugene Flynn — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:45:30 +0000

Of course it’s his number one issue because he’s an immigration attorney. If you spent practically all of your adult life immersed in a single subject, wouldn’t you have strong opinions on that subject and, quite possibly, deem that subject the most important and pertinent issue in a discussion on governmental policy?

Full disclosure: I’m his son, and I was a Christmas Vacationer for Ron Paul in Iowa.