I occasionally stop by Fee.org from time to time to see what goodies they have in store on their media. Today I’ve found two video’s in a row that have been less than satisifying. THe second one was down right suprising. Here is a man supposedly speaking for ‘libertarian’s’ and pretending to know the ‘anarcho-capitalist’ viewpoints as well. I only listened to the first 15 minutes before, in suprise, coming to the conclusion that he hasn’t come to a single valid conclusion.
What gives? This guy doesn’t sound libertarian at all. Whats up with fee.org?
He basically opened up with a few situations. One of which went something like this.
(Paraphrasing here)
You go to a restaurant and order a meal. You wait for a while and then your foot is brought to you warm and steamy. The waiter walks away.
For 5 seconds you smell the steamy hot plate of food and just as you grab your fork to dive in the waiter comes back and yanks the food from your table. TO which the waiter respons, “That will be all, to proceed beyond the first 10 seconds you will have to pay 5 bucks per minute (or something like that).”
That was the jist of the whole story, it sounded like Mr. Bandow was attempting to justify some sort of regulation to keep restaurants from doing this, as if there needed to be one in the first place.
I’ll need to watch it again because I feel like I must have mis-understood the whole speech. The first 15 minutes definitely had me confused.