Unfortunately government intervention in the free market has
caused again and again more harm than good. And government has now become a Hydra
that we fail to legally slay. Voting in a new government has been discouraging;
it is now impossible to rid ourselves of the encroaching octopus with
sharped-edged suckers.
Contrary to economic laissez
faire, President Bush said in 2008, “I’ve abandoned free market principles
to save the free market system.” In other words, because his administration
attempted unsuccessfully to reign in the Democrats with their entitlement plans
to lend money for homes to people who could not afford them and then disabled
regulations that would have checked bank loans and mortgages, he had to prop up
the too-big-to-fail bankers whose bankruptcy would have sent painful shockwaves
around the world and would have upset the crony capitalists. The taxpayers were
forced to the rescue.
The non-stop tirade of the “rich do not pay their fair share”
and “you did not build that” began the vilification of small and large
businessmen, followed by the marginalization and destruction of the middle
class, the very geese that lay the golden eggs. The government nanny must be in
total control of every facet of our lives.
Productivity, the industrial revolution, manufacturing are better
left to other parts of the world. The new global order dictates that we must now
be a service society, government-catering to the “hope and change” new citizens
coming from far-flung corners of the illiterate third-world kingdom.
You can’t make a “living wage” at your minimum-wage job? It’s
the fault of the rich! You vote for a living, stay on welfare, have
out-of-wedlock babies, drop anchor-babies, and keep bringing in the flotsam of
the world to replace the millions of babies aborted since Roe v. Wade. Make
sure you vote into office the same corrupt politicians that keep you perennially
poor under the guise of protection; you are dumb enough after graduating from a
Common Core school to believe that it’s the fault of the rich who keep you “down.”
Do you accept any personal responsibility for your boorish
behavior, drug use, lack of motivation, poor education, sloth, and lack of job skills?
Nanny government tells you it is not your fault; you are entitled to the wealth
of the rich. And when the rich run out of money, because socialists always run
out of other people’s money, they can fleece the middle class, people who worked
hard for a living, got an education, and paid taxes.
Today’s rich pay taxes to support the government and the
welfare state. The rich of long ago,
after taxation, even though still wealthy, did not enjoy the comforts that you have
in your alleged poverty of today. In the winter of 1695, when the climate
change industry did not exist, the wine at the palace of Versailles froze in
the fancy goblets at King Louis XIV’s table. Even in the nineteenth century
America, the ink froze in the inkwells in winter time, that’s how cold and
miserable life was.
The Pennsylvania legislature almost destroyed George
Washington’s army quartered at Valley Forge. The government decided to try
price controls on commodities that were needed by Washington’s army. No farmer with
a large family to support was dumb enough to sell their produce at controlled
prices when the British were paying in gold. The army almost starved to death
in the winter of 1777-1778. The unwise government price controls brought the
army to its knees.
Government does not believe in Adam Smith’s “invisible hand;”
there is no such thing as people, by pursuing their own self-interest, are led
by an invisible hand to promote the well-being of the community. The government
must intervene because they know best.
If government does not dictate every last rule and
regulation in great detail, how much and what we can eat, what we can drink,
how much salt we can ingest, what doctors we can see, what homes we can live
in, what cars we can drive, how much electricity we use, how much water we can
have, what crops to plant, we are doomed to failure.
To avoid massive voter fraud, by the time the drive for a
national “voter” I.D. becomes reality, we will all be chipped and the
government will know where we are at all times, just like dogs and cats.
Government intervention to slay the war on poverty has
perpetuated and deepened poverty after spending trillions of dollars. In spite
of Affirmative Action programs and other wealth redistribution schemes aimed at
destroying social injustice, people are still differently-abled by birth; some
like to work more than others; some are risk takers and others are comfortable
in their status-quo; some like to work the night shift while others no shift at
all, they are happy with government handouts; some like to go to school and learn
new things, while others enjoy partying and living it up; some don’t stay on any job long enough to get work
experience; why try if welfare is literally forced upon the sloth and
unmotivated; some have inherited wealth that must be confiscated for the common
good; others who built an enterprise did not really built that, it just
happened by magic, it came via the public roads; and others were just plain
lucky and thus does not deserve the fruits of their labor.
Keynesian economists have been telling us for decades that “America
has more income inequality than other wealthy nations” and this miscalculated
inequality “has been on the rise in the last 25 years.” But none of these calculations include
welfare, free medical care, WIC, and other similar programs. They are strictly
looking at income disparities born by many factors connected to lacking
personal responsibility, education, and the dissolution of the family.
You can tweak statistics to prove whatever you set out to
prove so calculations of this “inequality” does not include the many financial
dependency programs currently in place. According to the U.S. Census, there are
over “100 million Americans who receive at least one welfare program run by the
federal government and it does include Social Security and Medicare.”
Even Keynesian economists admit that policies that
redistribute wealth or income reduce the rewards of high income earners,
raising the rewards of low-income earners, thus reducing the incentive to earn
high income. We trade economic efficiency
for equality and create a nation of dependents who would rather stay home and
draw benefits from those who still work.
It is a fact that 70 percent of all government spending
involves programs that create government dependence. According to the
Congressional Budget Office, 60 percent of all U.S. households get more
transfer payments than they pay in taxes. “Terrence P. Jeffrey calculated that 86
million Americans work full-time in the private sector while 148 million Americans
receive benefits from the government.” http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/18-stats-that-prove-that-government-dependence-has-reached-epidemic-levels
Education was for many generations a way out of poverty when
the family was intact. But when the family unit was destroyed by a government that
stepped in as the daddy for generations of fatherless children, college costs
have escalated, and professional jobs were shipped overseas at an alarming
rate, it was hard to sell education anymore.
Government and Democrats have advocated spending more money on pre-school
programs and on inner-city children but the results were dismal. And the
uneducated adults could not be lifted out of poverty; they remained on inter-generational
government dole.
We have certainly tried for generations to alleviate poverty
through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed forms of discrimination in
rates of pay and hiring standards and established the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Equal pay for equal work was a daunting if not
impossible parameter because we are different in our ability, education,
experience, etc. Affirmative action
stepped in with hiring quotas for minorities and females.
The problem was that many who were given this preferential
treatment over other hires were really less qualified or not qualified at all.
They were expected to learn on the job. Critics argued that numerical quotas
and compulsory hiring of unqualified workers was certainly a problem in many
professions, including the field of education. Replacing qualified “white males”
with “other, less qualified workers” was certainly counterproductive and
inefficient. Proponents of quotas countered that it was necessary to redress
past wrongs, especially slavery. “Putting more women and members of minority
groups into high-paying jobs would certainly make the income distribution more
equal,” affirmative action supporters argued.
Today the important economic balance of efficiency over
equality is completely discounted by Democrats and their supporters who are
arguing for a complete replacement of the free market system with socialism on
the ideological belief that everything white men have accomplished has been
tinged with racism, bigotry, and inequality and only adopting the Marxist
ideology would redress that problem. Certainly these Democrats have not studied
the recent case of Venezuela and its economic woes resulting from a full-blown
socialist poverty state established by the late Hugo Chavez.
There is a lot to be said about government control from
cradle to grave. A population fully
dependent on an omnipotent government is easier to control in a high-rise city
dwelling setting than spread out over miles on the land. And when government
runs out of other people’s money, it will have to scale back and possibly
withdraw the largesse to the generationally dependent.
The free market mechanism is efficient but it does not
promote the total equality desired by Marxist supporters. Such equality must be
achieved by force, by government fiat, redistributing to the world the “unjust
and unearned income and wealth” of billions of enterprising people. When that is achieved, we will have reached Orwellian
utopia.
Lucky for us, total government control works because they
know what is best for us – nuclear armament of Iran, our sworn enemy, and a
peaceful invasion with illegal immigrants brought from third world nations that
will quietly complete the fundamental transformation of our expansionist evil empire
into a malleable tin pot dictatorship.
We will be turned into an irrelevant impoverished nation as
envisioned by the Washington political elites, a nation ruled by a one-party
government that worships primitive cultures and obedient welfare-dependent subjects
and favors global economic de-development.
The low information voters and welfare recipients will be
satisfied with a minimum, grateful that the “man” sends them a check every
month in exchange for nothing. The fact that governments do not produce
anything of value seems to escape their understanding and, without the hard
labor of many, their undeserved and unearned “entitlements” would not arrive
promptly every month.
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