Posted on 04/19/2011 11:13:55 PM PDT by MetaThought
... This morning I had an e-mail from a reader who lives in Norway but does business in the US:
What amazes me is how much more bureaucratic the US has become, as compared to what can only be described as socialist “home turf” here in Norway. Why? Well, Americans seem to have a knack for over-doing everything. Whether it is music, or sports, war or tree-hugging, the Americans simply over do it. So too with bureaucracy (and unions)… It’s a kind of “go big or go home” mentality which permeates American life at so many levels and in so many directions. Which, I suppose, is both good and bad. It has given us the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, jazz, and umpteen other icons. But it has also given us mind bogglingly stupid, bureaucratic decay.
... When such a nation embarks on the European trajectory of suicide-by-statism, it will not merely be Big Government but Biggest Government. I used to think Obamacare would simply be a disaster on the scale of Canadian health care or Britain’s NHS, but, as the Cornhusker Kickback and the legions of additional IRS agents and the tanning-salon tax became plain, you realize it will be a disaster of an entirely different order. This is Gibbon’s Decline And Fall All-U-Can-Eat Super Bowl Christmas Spectacular On Ice.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
As the late Christian apologetics pundit C. S. Lewis pointed out, the grander or better something is, the worse it will be if it falls. That may help a bit to explain why Obama’s effups are so immoderate.
We got so wealthy that we thought we could afford to regulate every aspect of life and business along with give gifts to the less fortunate who didn’t earn it. That all the added expense and loss of freedom would pale compared to the benefits...
Well the benefits didn’t really come but the loss of freedom and expense did...
And here we are...
A less wealthy people could never have afforded to have such lofty policies...
In short our wealth destroyed us.
Bump
Steyn Ping
One of the best ideas I have seen in a while is “redistribution of GPA”. If that doesn’t penetrate those “bowls of mush” nothing can. (Of course, I freely admit we fell for pass fail.)
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