Nicholas Sarwark, LNC Chair Via FB:
When you were a kid, did you ever know an unpopular kid who didn’t seem to have any friends? Did you ever see that kid try to buy friends by giving out candy or gifts to make other people like him? It works for a little bit, because hey, free candy. But as soon as the candy runs out, the unpopular kid still doesn’t have any friends.
As part of growing up, kids learn that real friendships come from similar interests and mutually beneficial relationships. They take time and energy to build. They can’t be bought, but real friendships also don’t go away as soon as the free candy runs out.
The Libertarian Party platform opposes foreign aid.
Not because we don’t like people in other countries. It’s because we’ve grown up and realized that we can’t buy real friends with free candy. Taking tax money from poor people in the United States and giving it to often corrupt governments in other countries doesn’t bring our countries any closer together, though it may work wonders for the relationships between the politicians on both sides.
Real friendships between countries are built for free. They’re built by removing tariffs and taxes that prevent people from trading goods and services easily. They’re built by removing immigration quotas and bureaucracy that prevent peaceful people from moving across borders to find a better life. They’re built by removing onerous visa requirements that make it harder for individuals to visit other countries and meet the people there and learn to appreciate them and their countries.
The Libertarian Party will keep fighting to break down the barriers to making real friendships with other countries. The old parties will keep using your tax money to give out free candy.
Yes, Jill, being young is very wise! đŸ˜‰
I can post on my Facebook page faster than I can get something posted to the LP blog. This may end up being a LP blog post and/or a video op-ed as well.
Great op-ed. Is there a good distribution system to try to get it into wider circulation?
Also, just in case anyone cares and didn’t know or assumed otherwise, I made up the headline and picked a random image using image search; Nick only wrote the text portion of the body of the article.
It’s very good. Is it going to be a party statement also, or has it been rejected as such for some reason, or not cleared by some committee yet, or does Nick Sarwark not want to make it a party statement?
Here’s an analogy that works!
I sure like Mr. Sarwark. He sure is wise for being so young.
I love it!