Bring on the Capitalists [Mark Steyn]

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 28, 2003 | Mark Steyn

[Joe Bonforte]

But when the government of a G7 nation can't run a small marijuana sideline as well as a college student with a window box, that seems to set an entirely new standard for official underperformance.

Oh, I don't know about that. A lot of us predicted something like this as soon as the Canadian government announced it would be growing pot. After all, the bureaucrats can't even accomplish things they believe in, much less things they were dragging into doing against their will.

[ellery]

"the humanitarian lobby -- Big Consciences"

Funniest. Steyn. Ever.

[wizardoz]

....the Center for Biological Diversity is suing the U.S. government to get the bush listed as an endangered species and thus indirectly put pressure on Tucson Electric.

Heh heh heh... I love it when one stupid pack of libs turn on another stupid pack of libs. I fantasize about celebrity death matches between Arafat and Chirac. But I'd settle for ELF bombing Gray Davis's offices.

[Joe Bonforte]

Funniest. Steyn. Ever.

I laughed harder last week at the subtitle for his article about Wesley Clark: "You've got questions; he's got multiple answers."

[headsonpikes]

The Canadian government is the least efficient administration in the world, except at delivering contracts to its supporters, and pensions to its placemen.

Heads on pikes!

[NutCrackerBoy]

Maybe the best column I have read in my life. A tour-de-force.

[Paul_B]

Thanks, Joe.

Nother one, Pokey.

Steyn ping.

[Pokey78]

Thanks Paul!

[MEG33]

Steyn plunges the knife in....terrific.

[spodefly]

Only Steyn could write an article that goes from government pot to endangered species to politically driven NGOs and have it all make perfect sense.

[wife-mom]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey. Excellent read, as usual.

[Lurker]

Steyn always seems to swing for the fences, and most time it's still going up on the way out of the park.

Thanks for the post Joe.

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[Gritty]

This guy is a National Treasure, but I can't figure out the most for whom,... the USA or Canada!

[GreenLanternCorps]

That's simple, The Anglosphere!

[knighthawk]

Ping

[baseballmom]

The Big Consciences have made a political decision: that it's not in their interest for the Bush crowd to succeed, and that calculation outweighs any concern they might have for the Iraqi people.

This is it, exactly. The Big Consciences would rather see the whole world in hell, than see any Bush policy have a successful outcome. Their hatred of Bush is unbelievable.

[JusPasenThru]

"Instead of its hugely wasteful ''war on drugs,'' the U.S. government might have been better just to legalize them, give the contract to the government of Canada, and in three months the entire drug market would have collapsed and guys would be huddled in darkened alleys saying, ''Hey, man, do you know where I can get some butterscotch pudding?'' "

Too funny! The mental images this inspires...

[Britton J Wingfield]

Ping :)

Great essay.

[lainde]

Great Steyn...Thanks!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Instead of its hugely wasteful ''war on drugs,'' the U.S. government might have been better just to legalize them, give the contract to the government of Canada, and in three months the entire drug market would have collapsed and guys would be huddled in darkened alleys saying, ''Hey, man, do you know where I can get some butterscotch pudding?''

LOL, I've read recently that the quality is terrible and it stinks. I don't blame the customers for wanting their money back.