Tipping Point

"We are getting very close to the tipping point, where we will not be able to save this country." "We need to work hard before we get to the tipping point when there will be no hope of avoiding disaster."

We hear statements like these two every once in a while. "We have to turn this country around before it gets to the tipping point."

Where is that tipping point? Daniel Hannan, author of "The New Road To Serfdom: A Letter Of Warning To America" and Member of the European Parliament made a very interesting statement this evening on Hannity's news show: "There are lots of ways in theory you could get out of this mess, by spending less and bringing your borrowing under control. In practice, the state in Europe has now reached a size that makes that kind of behavior politically impossible." The size of government creates a huge problem. When government gets so big it takes too much of the GDP to run, then the country runs grave danger of not being able to set aside enough funds to cover their expenses and still continue a real economy. And it does NOT help to borrow more to cover the expenses. That does not help the economy thrive. Instead, government borrowing takes away from the private economy funds needed to borrow to grow business. And so, the more government borrows, the less private business grows. And the less private business grows, the less tax income the government has and so the government has to borrow more and raise the tax rates. Raising tax rates takes more money from the private sector and so business has even less to use to grow. And so it has to borrow even more. It is a vicious circle.

And what is really sad is that the people affected the most by all this government growth and waste are the poorest of society. The job market gets tighter and so they have trouble finding jobs. The private sector cash shrinks and so they have less for charitable giving. It is not the rich that suffer from big government; in fact, the rich suffer the least from big government. It is the middle income and below that bear the brunt of this burden. What a shame! What statists try to cure with big government is made worse by big government.

Well, what do we do? Daniel Hannan on Hannity: "It is not something you can fix with tinkering around the edges, cutting one or two programs here and there. There has got to be a fundamental rethink aimed at bringing the budget back into balance within a couple of years, not within the next forty years or whatever the Republicans in Congress are talking about. We don't have that length of time to play with, I'm afraid."

We have to do some fundamental rethinking. One thing we need to rethink is the idea that government can solve our problems. Government CANNOT solve our problems; government is the problem. The only thing government can do is protect us and mediate between states whenever struggles arise. Government needs to shrink drastically so that the private sector can grow. When that happens, EVERYONE will benefit from the lower levels of society to the upper levels. Repeal most federal agencies. Start with the EPA and the Dept of Education. Do you know that the regulations of the EPA are causing more environmental damage than they are preventing? Do you know that since the federal Dept of Education was started, the U.S. has continually fallen in scholastic achievements?

Another agency, even though technically it is not a government agency, that should be shut down is the Federal Reserve. Even though it is not technically a part of the government, the government uses it to control our money supply and to redistribute wealth. One reason we find ourselves in the recession we are in, is because of the Federal Reserve and its illegitimate connection with the federal government has caused inflation and controlled the money flow to the detriment of the private sector and to the benefit of the big banks that are part of the Federal Reserve. Fire Ben Bernanke and close down the Federal Reserve!

The list could go on and on. The government has gotten so big that if it was shrunk to its proper size, none of us would recognize it. It would take decades for us to get use to living without the government interfering in our lives. And this includes our state governments also. SHRINK GOVERNMENT NOW!!!

People's Blindness

Here is "the real motive of any person who's ever preached the slogan: 'From each according to his ability, and to each according to his need'....At first, I kept wondering how it could be possible that the educated, the cultured, the famous men of the world could make a mistake of this size and preach, as righteousness, this sort of abomination...Now I know that they didn't do it by any kind of mistake.  Mistakes of this size are never made innocently...they have a reson that they do not wish to tell...There wasn't a man voting for it who didn't think that under a setup of this kind he'd muscle in on the profits of the men abler than himself." (For The New Intellectual, Ayn Rand; New American Library, 1963; pp 122, 123)
Why would BO say something so stupid as: "We need to spread the wealth around.  That is good for us all"?  Doesn't he realize this has been going on in our country for 2 centuries?  Maybe he doesn't know the history of this country.  Capitalism has raised more people from poverty than any other financial structure or any other society.  Was all poverty gone?  No, of course not.  And the socialist structures certainly could not even begin to claim they had accomplished that.  Capitalism did a much better job in easing poverty than any other structure.  All the other structures created more poverty.   And capitalism raises people out of poverty without taking from some by force to give to someone else who has not worked for it.  And capitalism created more charity than any other society.  It did not erase poverty, but it did much more than any other society ever has.
So why did he make such a claim?  Why do people who are socially cultured, educated, supposedly intelligent make such a stupid claim and buy into this destructive silliness?  It could be a number of reasons.  1.) It could be they are just evil and want to destroy our country.  2.) Or they are not smart enough to realize that what they said makes no sense at all.  3.) Or as Ayn Rand states: they wanted to horn in on the profits that were being made in our society without working for them.
The last one makes most sense.  Look at the corruption in our federal government today.  Look at Charlie Rangel, Barney Frank, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Maxine Waters, and the list could go on almost without end.  Look at the lobbyists.  Look at the CEOs that cuddle up to the politicians.  Read Reckless Endangerment by Ann Morgenson and weep.  When taxes are put together with the force of law, people begin to hope they can horn on the wealth that will collect under the threat of law.
The only way to solve this is to shrink government to such an extent that people are not tempted to use it to force others to supply what they want.  The federal government's purpose is not taking care of us, is not providing for us our daily needs.  Its purpose is to create an atmosphere where the private sector is safe and secure so that it can do the work that supplies us with our daily needs.  Anything beyond that leads to corruption and tyranny, which is where we are headed if we don't get this stopped.