Comments by "" (@walperstyle) on "Inside America's Billion-Dollar Weed Business: The Grass is Greener (Trailer)" video.

  1. The Libertarian Party of Canada wants to end the war on drugs.  I don't do drugs or support the idea that people should, but I realize the bigger picture; that it's a complete waste of tax money.  Literally Billions of dollars going down the toilet to combat something that cannot be stopped.   Furthermore, this is a viable industry, even though I may personally not like it.   Consider the Libertarian party this election.  We are one of the few parties that is plotting to get into power, and leave you alone!
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  2. The only reason one industry thrives over another is when a lobby group is paying to have people manipulate the bills into laws that kill off the competitor.  Libertarians don't get a lot of donations from Corporations because we won't do things for them.  We want to open it up so its fair.   Conservatives love oil and mining, Liberals like some resources and manufacturing, Socialists (NDP) like to have huge unionized taxpayer funded public works projects that are over budget.  They all play favourites.  We want to end that. 
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  3. You talk as if corporations are blind anti environmental entities.   The further could be the truth.  If corporations liked us, how come they don't support us?   Because we don't create monopolies like government, we open the free market to thrive. and not protect bad companies.  
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  4. If you hold companies responsible in a true free market, you jail the people that do harm.   No company wants to pollute or kill its customer base.    Its our current government that plays favourites and taxes some over others.  
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  5. Who owns the media?  Everyone.  The CRTC in Canada has very much a large grip on what people see.  We also have publically funded television.  I don't like paying for stuff I don't use.   They are even trying to regulate the internet.  End the government control, let the internet be free.     Libertarian has never had the chance.   Its like being the only sober person in the car and not allowed to drive. 
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  6. They are trying to regulate the internet right now.  They, being government.  Why?  because government doesn't like losing control and its power over individuals.   They absolutely are trying to control all media.  Media also lobbies against government, much like other corporations.   Government is the problem.
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  7. *****  You do realize in Canada the CRTC is the reason why our netflix sucks, and our cellphone media companies get to take all the cake.   I don't think you get it.   ...still.  sigh. 
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  8. If you are not careful you will end up as socialist as us.   Church of the Government is very real for you guys as well.  Government doesn't fix problems.  They give your tax money to people that have way too much power. 
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  9. Government is corrupted.  It favours some people over others.  What nations are you talking about where government has done good deeds?   (you are sounding like one of those indoctrinated into the church of state)
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  10. Cool, who said I'm anti government?  I'm wanting people to stop thinking government has control over us.  Example,  who let government to decide what marriage is and isn't in the first place?   
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  11. I can't live legally within the country I was born.  I can't legally sustain myself.  Its the law.  
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  12. I'm not anti-government, I am government.   I oppose bureaucracy and hypocrisy.  Get government to back off a little out of our personal and financial lives. 
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  13. Those industries are regulated by criminal law and the fact that when they make mistakes, such as infringing on property rights of others (aka, environmental disaster), the smaller companies will eat them up, and take over.   The true free market does work as it allows companies to innovate, pay better, offer solutions where the dinosaur older companies fail to do so.     The Monopolies you think of are being created by Government.   Lets say a monopoly somehow does get created naturally, it may happen, "they will just drive the costs down every so often to kill off competition".   ....is there something wrong with this from a consumer point of view?  I like lower prices.  Thanks! Next time you go to a gas pump, read the pie chart that explains where the money goes. 
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  14. The low prices at Walmart are because of government regulation on the US and Canadian industry by regulation.  The free market went to China.  aka, the manufacturing sector that thought it was worth more than it actually is.  
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  15. safety, environmental, labour...just to name a few.  
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  16. CAT Canada was the last one that came to mind.  The union was too costly up here, and the dollar was lower in the US than up here, so they simply couldn't afford all the workers, and thus shut the entire facility down in Ontario, went down south and hired people in the US cheaper.  (yes, that's not overseas).   GM's Union also helped close down factories in Detroit.  You'll notice that GM is trying hard to get into the Chinese market, with building the cars over there as well.  This means they don't have to offer bloated retirement packages they cannot afford (reference, Robert Kiyosaki's 'the prophecy' from 2002)   Lockheed Martin also outsourced many electronics of the F35 to China.   Kellogs was another one.   All unionized (I didn't notice that until after I posted them, just a strange coincidence) The free market will prevail, and its unfortunate that people hold onto it and the faith that government will somehow make it better for people.  Truth is, globalization has happened, we can't stop it, we can only try to compete in it, and I know Canada does it better, faster, and more environmentally sound than other people.    Lets have a Deflation, and help bring the costs of things down, so its remarkably cheap to live, and we can have technological advances here, instead of overseas. 
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  17. Sorry, You are asking what regulations?  ...Really, the regulations of safety such as 'A car needs to have XXX airbags',  Therefore the car companies have greater costs.  Workers need to work more, or plants need to be re-tooled.  These regulations just killed off any potential for you and I to ever start our own car company.   Other regulations in Canada are our environmental laws such as Directive 50 (I personally worked with this one and environmentalists).  It costs money to have a Me and an environmentalist on a drilling site, testing fluids and 'babysitting' people to get a job done.  The rules are made in a lab by people that don't work in the field.  So The environmentalist and I are both making over $120k per year, those costs get driven down to the consumer, making our oil more expensive than lets say , Saudi Arabia whom charges $50/bbl because they don't care about lives, environment or any of that stuff that we do. At the end of the day, its not government, or regulation that makes the area safe or happy, its workers. Individuals.  
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  18. Not to mention the regulatory body itself is directly being paid by our tax money.  These are usually Bureaucrats that have the power, and do change laws just for fun every year to make it look like they are doing something productive.   
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  19. As a resource nation, when we have more laws and regulations there needs to be people to implement them, this drives up the cost.  
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  20. That is why our SAG-D operations use contaminated water that is found under the oil sands payzone.  They Reuse this water as much as they can.  They also have treatment facilities.   ...I don't know what operations you are working in, but mine are more and more efficient every year. 
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