Comments for Students for Liberty, UC Berkeley

Comment on Don Boudreaux: Letter-Writer Extraordinaire by Caro Editor: as cartas de Don Boudreaux | Ordem Livre

Caro Editor: as cartas de Don Boudreaux | Ordem Livre — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:41:46 +0000

[...] Boudreaux, professor de economia da Universidade George Mason, tem um hábito inusitado: todas as manhãs, ele escreve cartas endereçadas aos editores de jornais e [...]

Comment on Alex Epstein Speaker Event Tomorrow! by Robert

Robert — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:02:59 +0000

Awesome; wish I’d seen it sooner!

Comment on Happy MLKJ Day! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:14:59 +0000

go mlkj

Comment on On Education, Politics, and the Ron Paul’s Role in Libertarian Social Change by Jerry Watkins

Jerry Watkins — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:48:07 +0000

I think Ron Paul needs to start showing him self in contrast with Obama if he wants to win. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAKsxfDMYAA

Comment on On Education, Politics, and the Ron Paul’s Role in Libertarian Social Change by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:30:58 +0000

Thanks for this Casey–great article. The only thing I would add is that some of the back-and-forth on Paul is less about any actual disagreement and more about people who still care that Murray Rothbard and Ed Crane had a fight thirty years ago. It makes me sad that some folks (they know who they are) feel the need to make this an intergenerational grudge. Young libertarians: don’t fall into it. You’ll be happier, and liberty will be better served.

Comment on What You Are Supporting When You Support Barack Obama by Hagbard

Hagbard — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:37:47 +0000

“Which is worse, murdering someone or labeling someone with an offensive term?”

You’d think it’d be the former but with libs it seems racial rhetoric is more of a pressing issue these days.

Comment on What You Are Supporting When You Support Barack Obama by Poor Yorick

Poor Yorick — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:31:56 +0000

DeLong Smackdown!

Comment on End the AC Transit Class Pass Mandate! by Tizzie

Tizzie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:18:07 +0000

If you were less mature and self-centered, you might understand that there are underlying public policy goals behind the class pass that reflected the commons where a community comes together and shares the common resources we all need. Like most college kids, you selfishly fail to see beyond the end of your own nose. You are connected to the whole. Where do students get the idea they are entitled to a free ride (going to a state school, using state funded libraries, citizen funded classrooms, citizen finances traditions . . . I know tuition is rising and, boo hoo, now some students have to pay more of what it costs to be there.

I bet you are one of the students I have heard complaining that it costs ten bucks a semester to use the sports-rec facilities. At least that fee is opt in, eh, cheapsake.

Comment on End the AC Transit Class Pass Mandate! by Tizzie

Tizzie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:14:38 +0000

I think your opposition to the Class Pass is immature and selfish. Maybe you don’t use the buses in Berkeley but I live here and do not own a car and ride the busses all the time and many UC students use the buses quite heavily. I resent how the UC students received seriously discounted bus service that the taxpayers and other bus riders fund. The UC student pass costs less than the $20/month pass sold to the disabled and seniors who typically live on very low fixed incomes. The UC students seem to think the bus services prioritizes them. I have never had a UC student yield a seat to me and I am senior and disabled. The UC students are loudy, rowdy, inconsiderate and uses the bus system very heavily. In fact, I am positive that UC students take advantage, on average of many, MANY more rides that your immature, selfish calculations consider. Instead of seeing this fee as an unwarranted, forced burden, you could look at it as all of the UC community — faculty and grad students get the benefit too — are caring for the whole, caring for the environment, reducing carbon emissions, reducing traffic burden on the community students temporarily inhabit (typically in selfish inconsideration of the locals). I would love it if UC students had to pay for every ride. Then maybe students would use the buses much less and stop burdening local folks who have no choice but to rely on the bus. I greatly resent it that students get such an unfair deal but I see the benefits to the whole. So should you. And grow up. Reflect for a moment on the stress on the UC campus of too many cars for too few parking, on the economic pressure of many students who really need transportation and the bus pass is much much cheaper than owning a car, and, geez, students can ride free to SF: do you think many students take advantage of the proximity of SF while they go to school here? Someone has to pay for the costs of a community and UC students are a very heavy burden on Berkeley’s tax base without the university really paying full freight for the burdens the university puts on public services. UC pays no real estate taxes and pays a token voluntary, and grossly inadequate fee to cover fire services, infrastructure . . . . the imbalance between what students contribute versus what they take from the city is enormous. Grow up and pay the bus fee. If you ride the bus less than 17 times in a the roughly four month time frame of a semester (17 round trips equal 34 trips), there might be something wrong with you or else you go around in a car polluting our city.

Comment on Three Frenchmen, a Swede, a Swiss, and a Libertarian Walk Into a Bar… by dripable service

dripable service — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:34:28 +0000

I do not disagree with you.