Posted on 07/20/2010 6:36:28 PM PDT by EscondidoSurfer
Already this effort is generating a fierce, almost culture-war-style backlash. It is generating a backlash among people who do not have faith in Washington, who do not have faith that trained experts have superior abilities to organize society, who do not believe national rules can successfully contend with the intricacies of local contexts and cultures.
This progressive era amounts to a high-stakes test. If the country remains safe and the health care and financial reforms work, then we will have witnessed a life-altering event. We’ll have received powerful evidence that central regulations can successfully organize fast-moving information-age societies.
If the reforms fail — if they kick off devastating unintended consequences or saddle the country with a maze of sclerotic regulations — then the popular backlash will be ferocious. Large sectors of the population will feel as if they were subjected to a doomed experiment they did not consent to. They will feel as if their country has been hijacked by a self-serving professional class mostly interested in providing for themselves.
If that backlash gains strength, well, what’s the 21st-century version of the guillotine?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Will feel? Let's try DO FEEL!
This is how socialism always looks. And it always fails.
But don't worry -- the socialists will insist on trying again, confident that it will work better next time.
BTW, progressives = regressives. You know back to controlling people by those who ‘think’ the know more than you.
I have so lost faith in my fellow citizens (the ones who voted for Obama) that I do not believe there will be much change in November.
Gridlock was good during the Clinton era.
Their will be change, but they may not roll back the perfect beast the Obamatons are building. We maybe adding home grown solar power, and arugila gardens not in support of Oboingo but inspite of him, just to survive.
The Federal Debt is the most direct measure of the functional utility of the Federal Government. Federal Debt is the mother of all bubbles...
The paring-knife, I hope.
After reading Hayek it is difficult to believe that anyone can advocate centralized economies for creating prosperity. No small number of people (despite the number of capital letters after their names) cann know enough to instantaneously make good decisions at the same rate as well as the free market.
“As Hayek observed in “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” each person “has some advantage over all others because he possesses unique information of which beneficial use can be made, but of which use can be made only if the decisions depending on it are left to him or are made with his active cooperation.” The only social system ever evolved for accomplishing the task is that of private property under a rule of law. That system provides individuals with incentives to use their informational advantages, a price system to efficiently convey dispersed bits of economic information, and a legal framework for appropriating and transferring property.”
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-nd-gd.html
Don’t be so sure about becoming self sufficient.
Strange things are happening.
Milk is ‘hazardous material’.
Raids on food co-ops.
Small local meat processors are being told by the Food Safety Inspection Service there will be an increase in fees from $65,000 to $650,000.
Changes in navigatable waters regulations.
170 year drought in Russia
8.5 to 12 million acres in Canada unplanted.
A poor regional wheat crop in US.
It’s almost overwhelming. I’d almost believe there’s a food crisis comin’.
The first thing the ‘progressives’ destroyed was the ‘rule of law’.
That’s why commerce is declaring ‘uncertainty’. No one knows what the rules are now.
I know. For the long term the most dangerous control they have is appointing judges.
Good call!
The cool, wet, extended Spring in Idaho reduced
the concern about sufficient water for the crops,
but the lack of heat in June delayed crop
development. It remains to be seen how the
yields end up. I’ve been in San Diego since July 5th
so I’m not hearing the ag reports each day.
Daivd Brooks, the house ‘Conservative.’ He is such a suck up.
Bingo!
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