The Lunatics Are Running the Asylum

When major news media figures can characterize Barack Obama as Burkean then the lunatics are truly in charge. SEE HERE Saul Alinsky'ites like Barack Obama have a good deal more in common with Lenin than with Edmund Burke. We live in times of entitlements. So many government programs have been created with the thought that somehow the government is going to save you from yourself that it is not surprising that the nanny-state is growing out of control.

The problem is that government is just the collective action of the people usually with a particular group elevated to positions of power, the oligarchs as it were. The government produces exactly nothing but commands: "Do this. Do that. Do this other thing." and by the way, pay for it yourself. The wealth that the government disperses must first be extorted from the people. But increasingly the people who command the oligarchs are people that themselves do not pay the taxes for in a Democracy it is only necessary to have a majority or even a plurality to maintain power. When sixty percent of the people are only paying about 3% of all the taxes, then those oligarchs who pretend that the people have entitlements that they don't pay for can continue to exist while everyone parties on except those upon whose backs the party is erected. Over time these weary and fall back into the growing pool of the entitled and then to maintain the party the burden becomes more onerous on the rest. When the tipping point comes the system collapses. The night is far advanced.

If we fail to recover the American spirit of independence and personal responsibility then we go into the night of economic collapse and universal poverty. Watch and be astute. Either we reverse the current trends or we go over the top and down following all the great nations of the past into the dustbin of history.