Quote Originally Posted by Bullmoose Bailey View Post
I admire their interest in self sufficiency. I've always felt that should be a primary goal. Maybe its because I read so much Schlafly from the 60s about nuclear redundancy, which I still believe by the way.

It is, I feel, still possible to be self-sufficient, non interventionist & prosperous. I wish my Canadian Brethren the best of luck at accomplishing just that.
Your belief unfortunately tends to leave out the fact that there are those who would encourage and applaud non-interventionism by some only to use the lapse to albeit much more subtly intervene themselves. This of course while perhaps leading to a greater prosperity (of sorts) for themselves comes at great cost to those whom might otherwise have been secured by a little productive interventionism by parties who actually give a darn about such things as self-sufficiency, prosperity, Freedom