The question I am asking myself is do I want to keep working so hard trying to keep it all together? How many of you feel that you outwork your democrat country men? Now they are climbing on your back and shouting “Forward”! Will all the “angry white men” just keep plugging away under this system? Democrats are betting that you will. I am betting maybe we are weary.
we simply will not be able to send all the kids to ballerina camp. Eventually this whole charade comes crashing down due to simple math. See Greece. See the United Kingdom before Thatcher. The demographics do not matter. GOTV does not matter. Giving illegals free voter registrations will not matter. There is not enough money for it. We will have to cancel the nation’s “cable”. Period. Kids will stamp their feet and cry “unfair”. Then when some grow up they will start businesses. Selling resewn clothes. Enchiladas. Farm picked food. ‘Shine. We will come back. Slowly. But it did have to happen this way.
As a middle aged white guy who once upon a time dreamed of a comfortable, happy retirement, I am ready to throw in the towel.
“The question I am asking myself is do I want to keep working so hard trying to keep it all together? How many of you feel that you outwork your democrat country men? Now they are climbing on your back and shouting “Forward”! Will all the “angry white men” just keep plugging away under this system? Democrats are betting that you will. I am betting maybe we are weary.”
You are asking yourself the same questions millions of others are asking right now. These are the questions that those who still work hard ask themselves when they realize that they now live in a socialist system.
And based on history, we know what the answers are. In the recently collapsed Soviet Union, they used to say “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work”.
In a socialist system everyone tries to work the least amount possible and get the most stuff they can. We can also add to that short list the avoidance of paying taxes whenever possible without being caught, as is the case in the failed socialist state Greece
Working the least amount possible by those who used to be producers is a small way of “Going Galt”, which has been happening to some degree already in the last four years, but quite frankly, we ain’t seen nothing yet!
I fully expect to see an acceleration of people deciding to quit working hard and more people deciding to start taking. It’s only basic human nature, after all.
We’re going to see a wave of retirements, early retirements, business retrenchments, withdrawn capital, and people deciding to look after themselves, and for those who have the money, to start spending it on personal pleasure in lieu of investing it. GDP, tax revenues, and employment in good paying jobs are all going to plummet. Those who have previously planned their bunkers will now finish them and make as many arrangements as possible to try and save themselves from the inevitable collapse. Of course, all of the above measures will help accelerate the collapse, but then, that’s what a death spiral is all about.
On the other side of the coin, more and more people will say the heck with it and sign up for as much free stuff as possible.
More trillions will be printed each year to be handed out, as shrinking tax revenues cannot possibly finance all the demands for free stuff. The House Republicans will acquiesce time after time in tacitly approving these printed trillions because they do not have the courage to simply shut down the federal government until Obama comes to heel.
Alexander Fraser Tytler says it far better than I:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.”