...and people call me hyperbolic.

FAIR WARNING: There is no economic or political philosophy I find more loathsome than libertarianism. There is no movement so morally and intellectually bankrupt, no group of people so willfully blind to the facts on the ground, no party so cravenly selfish and self-interested as the fucking libertarians. So if you're a libertarian, let's just get this out of the way: Fuck you, fuck Ayn Rand, fuck Alan Greenspan, fuck your entire thinly-veiled feudal pipe dream, set me on ignore now, because if you start quoting the fucking Fountainhead you will feel my boot up your ass and I won't even be erudite about it. Von Mises Institute my ass.

THAT SAID:

1) France is 78% Nuclear.

2) Fukushima has been hard to ignore.

3) France is economically fucked and they know it.

So what you're seeing here is an attempt to curb nuclear power use and an attempt at visible fiscal responsibility in order to quell the fears of France and the rest of Europe. It's their own version of Cash for Clunkers - not necessarily the best economic plan, but likely to have an effect and certainly likely to be visible and much talked-about. Is there a discussion there? Certainly. Can debate be had on both sides? Most definitely.

In a rational world, does any of that debate lead to "Drug prohibition is a subset of slavery?"

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

If your lights are kept on by state-built, sold-off-to-the-highest-bidder nuclear power plants, you have a socialist-cum-fascist electrical grid. You get to bitch about your lights being on if you're running them off a generator in the back fueled by gas that you mined yourself or didn't transport on state-maintained roads. You fucking libertarian hypocrite.

If your customers arrive on state roads or state-run mass transit systems, you have a socialist transportation grid. You get to bitch about your tourist industry if you fly the fuckers there yourself and land them at airports you own. You fucking libertarian hypocrite.

If your overdose cases show up at state hospitals in public ambulances driven on public roads protected by public police forces, you have a socialist safety net. You get to bitch about "slavery" if you live in FUCKING SOMALIA ASSHOLE.

Wingers I can tolerate. Some of my best friends are crazy right wing. Fuckin' Canadian right wingers, though... there's something about them. I dunno. Pardon my hyperbole; Ayn Rand makes my vagina sandy.