As our government plods along printing money and buying up private assets at fire sale prices just remember one thing. All throughout history the great tyrants have come from the left, promising the government can fix everything. This is not a poke at either party because they are both doing this. The truth is the government is hopelessly inefficient at everything it does and it makes terrible decisions with money. Not sometimes....every time. They see all money as theirs and allow us to keep only what they deem appropriate given their need to institute a new give away program before an election. This isn't aimed at a party, I think they both stink. They preach moderation but they mean state control.
Propaganda and fear tactics cause us to allow our freedom to be taken without so much as a struggle, we willingly give it in return for a promise of security. How many times in the last few weeks have they told us something must be done immediately and this is the last thing? Well it hasn't been the last thing and it won't be. There will be crisis after crisis until those who desire the power have all they think they can get. Pick a history book... any history book and read. This is how it works.
Until we demand that the market and it's participants be left to stand or fall on their own merits we will have no security. The only real security is that which is derived from fundamentals of capitalism, those who make the best decisions get to live to fight another day.
Once we become comfortable with the idea that it's "Fair" to have the government confiscate something from one citizen and give it to another citizen in the interest of "Fairness" then the arbiter of fairness is the only one with any power. |