Time to Sever the Government-Market Connection
I was excited to see that the bailout plan (at least the first incarnation of it) was voted down yesterday. I was disappointed, however, to see the market plunge so dramatically in response. This points to the socialist/fascist/statist connection between the government and the market.
How is it that we have permitted such a degeneration into the uncivilized state of affairs in which a primitive, parasitic, political class can affect business transactions through the actions they take (or fail to take) in the halls of Congress? We should be ashamed of ourselves for voting for these despicable creatures and for allowing them to remain in power. From the writing of the Constitution on, we have steadily given the organized criminals we call politicians more and more power over us and our economy. This, as I've mentioned before, has led to a class of large businesses proficient at using the laws to crush their competitors.
But it's really our fault for asking politicians to fix various things we have perceived as problems through the years. What a primitive mindset. We don't like something, so we team up with others to use violence (government) to make them bend to our will, whether it's child labor, low wages, pollution, drugs, prostitution, or the way a bank is doing business. Rather than take the civilized route and work through voluntary efforts to persuade people to change their actions, we throw the very concept of human dignity and natural rights out the window and point a gun at our perceived "enemies." We've created an inhuman and wealth-destroying entanglement of government and markets, which has led directly to the crisis in which we now find ourselves.
We're now at a point where we can grow up and decide to stop our use of force to get what we want, or we can plunge so far into statism that we can't climb back out. We can say "no" not only to this bailout but to any bailouts, ever. We can say "no" not only to any proposed new regulations but to any regulations, ever. We can demand the dissolution of the IRS and Federal Reserve and an end to the use of violence to restrict banking or any other industry. We can call the entire spectrum of government regulation exactly what it is--a violation of the natural rights of every one of us and a sentence for our children and grandchildren to never achieve the prosperity and happiness that could be theirs under a true free market.
We can sever the destructive link between government and the economy, but our window of opportunity may be closing quickly.
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