Plunging toward the omnipotent state
Well, the politicians did what all defenders of human liberty were afraid they'd do. They passed the financial bailout, thus sending us further into the current that's quickly carrying us toward an omnipotent state. Not surprisingly, the original 3-page bill was just too small for the liking of our political class. No, they weren't willing to vote for it until it ballooned to almost 450 pages. The bill that passed today was loaded down with so many unrelated government invasions of person and property it would make Karl Marx's head spin. And our Communist-in-Chief signed it so fast he nearly sprained his wrist.
To me, this is proof (yet again) that politics is inherently unable to solve problems or make things better. In fact, it must necessarily make things worse because actions by government---NO MATTER WHAT THEIR REASONS---always destroy wealth and aggress against person and property. There is no redeeming value to politics, politicians, or government at all. It seems to make no difference whether the parasites are elected democratically or otherwise. Our vaunted democracy has not preserved our freedom. In fact, I'm inclined to think that freedom is more precarious under democracy than under other systems of rule.
And still, come November, we're going to elect another president (and hundreds of members of Congress) from one of the two statist parties that have worked tirelessly to extinguish our freedom for well over a century. Are the American people really so afraid of unshackling themselves from the state and living in a free society like adults, even if we have some occasional hard times as a natural result of living in an imperfect world?
Remember, remember, the 5th of November...
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