Forleden faldt jeg over et godt citat fra Bob Geldorf. Ja, ham rockmusikeren med ‘Make Poverty History’. Jeg hører til den skare af personer, som er en anelse skeptiske overfor Geldorfs og Bonos mange kampagner. Jeg har også tidligere ytret mig særdeles kritisk overfor Geldorfs og Bonos visioner og metoder. Derfor må jeg indrømme, at jeg blev forbløffet over hans skarpsindige udtalelser omhandlende frihandel og landbrugsstøtte. Geldorf udtaler sig således om ‘The Common Agricultural Policy’:
“The CAP is a protection racket Al Capone would look at in admiration and be proud of. Why do Europe’s farmers need protection? Farmers are being paid to look after fields - they are just gardeners. Some are growing stuff through subsidy that we don’t even need - then we are paying more taxes to store the stuff we don’t need and more taxes to destroy the stuff we don’t need. The CAP was responsible for the butter mountains and the wine lakes. These surpluses are also being shipped out to Africa and destroying local markets and economies. It is not giving people a chance to get back on their feet. The CAP should be scrapped and farmers should be open to competition. We’re not a free market. There is no free trade. The CAP is anti-free trade…
CAP is killing people. Africa is only eight miles down the road from Europe and it is inconceivable that there is starvation and poverty there while huge amounts are wasted across Europe on farming subsidies. Europe gives 65 cents -just over half a euro -to the average poverty-stricken African in aid in a year, whereas a surplus cow in Europe gets 848 euros a year.”
Senere surfede jeg så forbi Liberator, som linkede til en ny kampagne kaldet Freeplay. Kampagnen er et liberalt svar til den lattervækkende og (desværre) statsfinancierede Fairplay-kampagne, der forsøger at stigmatisere det at arbejde sort ved hjælp af skræmmereklamer på landsdækkende TV. I har alle stødt på dem på et eller andet tidspunkt. Freeplay svarer igen med en række lignende påfund. Jeg kan varmt anbefale at tage et smut forbi deres side og kigge på deres plakater og flyers, da de er meget morsomme. Her er to:
Hat tip til Adam Smith Institute Blog og Liberator.

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