Posted on 02/01/2009 3:03:39 PM PST by quesney
Randall might be on target, but he’s forgotten the human element here. The Soviets had an even larger state apparatus to control and contain their population, but in the end, they were just an empty shell. Everything outlined in this article would increase public cynicism about the government and officially-sponsored government activities, especially from the left. A culture with a disconnected elite and a sullen, disaffected mass might have the appearance of power, but when people are really needed, they won’t show up, or won’t care.
The end result of this scenario would be out-of-touch bureaucrats imposing meaningless regulation which would be ignored and subverted by most people - some of which already takes places in government-run insitutions like the public schools, where those of us who are conservative and patriotic silent put up with inane leftist workshops, return to the classroom, and teach what we wanted to in the first place. The scenario outlined in this article would grow the ranks of those who will be increasingly empowered to fight back in the old style of the slave, with incomplete work, half-assed efforts, sly subversion, and undermining the slaveowner. This also implies the occasional slave revolt.
In the words of the old Soviet joke, “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.”
Eventually it will disappear like the nothingness it is based upon.
The big assumption underpinning this scenario is that the economy recovers and Obama gets credit for it.
Frankly, I think the government will continue to have its own financial crises (what’s happening in California is a sneak peek of what will happen in the Federal government), continued deficit spending will crowd out private investment, thus stalling any economic recovery. We will be economically stagnating for years, and Obama will get booted out in 2012.
It all comes down to deficit spending and the uncertainty and pessimism becoming ever more prevalent among investors. Investments, not consumer spending, will lead us out of the recession. Investors have to be confident in future economic performance, AS WELL AS EXPECT PRIVATE INVESTMENTS TO OUTPERFORM GOVERNMENT BONDS, to begin investing, which will itself spur recovery.
Investors tend to see things as improving or on the verge of improving before consumers themselves do. All this talk of consumer spending and how it drives the economy ignores the critical business spending (i.e. investment) side of the equation.
The thing that is the most amusing about the victorious, gloating Socialists is the way they're whistling past the mosque...
Actually, Islam's breeding machine will wash over the Socialists like a tsunami.
It WILL be hilarious - the feminists becoming pieces of meat for the men to own, the homosexuals dealt with according to Islamic law, the impotent subjugated Greenies watching in horror as the Muslims turn their beautiful nature preserves into rotting ghettoes dedicated to the glory of The Prophet, and Allah.
Oh, yes - and the return of outright slavery. Leftists make retarded morons look like rocket scientists.
You got that right.
Hope no terrorists are watching and "thinking" about what just happened.. The whole area just shut down.. lock stock and barrel.. No water, gas, elec, gasoline, heat, grocerys or refrigeration.. Just shut down the elec grid.. and any area is in a world of hurt..
Would not take a couple of genius's to do it either..
Even a primitive sand monkey could do it..
A dirt bike and load of explosives.. boom no elect...
Doesn't seem too rosy to me...
Gulp is right!
I think so. Not just because most in america think the gravy train is endless but also the baby boomers are retiring.
We're going to need a better plan than that. Let's start out by supporting Michael Steele.
Start with yanking conservative kids from the government indoctrination camps ( misnamed "schools") tomorrow!
Bismarck: "God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America."
Quoted in Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World (2002). pg vii
Thanks to GOPJ who pinged me this one : Says the US will be bankrupt by 2020, 2030 at the latest.
One wild a$$ guess among 300 million, and worth no more than any others.
Bismark had a bunch of great quotes, that’s a new one to me, thanks!
I’m sorry, I dont share your optimism. We no longer have the manufacturing jobs to pull us out of this one without creating a tax state.
Some would argue that the USA is bankrupt today...
We don’t need manufacturing jobs.
We need to cut taxes across the board, eliminate taxes on capital and divends, and then have the government go on an austerity program.
We dont need manufacturing jobs? That’s the most rediculous thing I have ever heard! Manufacturing pulled us out of the Great Depression. www.mises.org.
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