Definitions for Understanding the US Government's Economic Path to Destruction
- Centralized Administrative Planning
- Market-oriented Socialist Economy
- Command Economy
- Means of Production
- Socialism
- Psychology of Anti-Liberalism
- System of State Ownership
- Collective Farming
- Economy of the Soviet Union
- Dissolution of the corrupt, stagnate Soviet Union
Several "dignitaries" have paraphrased that those who are ignorant of history will either participate in the repetition of history or just permit the devastating history of the past to repeat without any action to prevent it.
{Editor's Note: Most notably George Santayana is known for famous sayings, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it",[2] and "[O]nly the dead have seen the end of war." (a quote often wrongly attributed to Plato).}
History has shown that when those who endured the pain of past historical failures, who continued to fight against repeating those failures, die, then the young who did not experience the wars and economic devastation of the past invariably seem to move politically in the very direction that will repeat the devastation.
The US Government, mostly because of war, depression, and misguided 'leaders', has evolved from the 'limited' government desired by the authors of the Constitution to prevent the tyranny of a king into a collusive, conspiratorial conglomerate of the three branches --- Legislative, Executive and Judicial --- which over 125 years have devolved into today's perversion of liberty.
During 125 years CONgresses, Presidents, and the Courts have created an impenetrable, faceless, unaccountable bureaucracy whereby almost any violation or infringement of the Constitution can occur without eventually isolating the bureaucrat(s) ultimately responsible for the failure. The bureaucracies of hundreds of agencies are NEVER ELIMINATED and NEVER REDUCED in size even if the original purpose is now obsolete!
The PRIMARY cause of the government agenda to expand and exert CONTROL is the socio-progressive mindset of many elected officials (Sen. Chuckie Shoeshiner for one) and their lackeys, the permanent bureaucrats who remain after elections, the government employees who pay forced-dues to UNIONS. The bigger government gets, the more FORCEFUL control government can exert on its citizens. After all, government bureaucrats need something to do on the job besides playing games, viewing porn on their computers, or talking on the phone.
BIG government continues to get bigger almost ENTIRELY because government employee unions implicitly threaten elected officials into a quid-pro-quo deal, i.e. unions will donate their union's dues to candidates who support the expansion of government. Expansion includes higher pay, automatic raises, automatic promotions, and more new hires to expand the union's dues revenue. Examples of recent expansions are Homeland Security (Big Brother), the TSA, the NSA's new Utah Data Center and ObamaCare's 16,000 new IRS employees who, in the end, will be destructive of our civil rights in their futile attempt to enforce the 'individual mandate' just as the DEA has been and is unable and incapable to stop 'illegal' drug trafficking.
Bureaucracies are ineffective and inept because 1/2 to 2/3 of union employees were hired to do 'make-work' jobs, i.e. they're deadweight! The organization of bureaucracies is completely unmanageable and employees are COMPLETELY UNACCOUNTABLE. A goverment-union employee cannot be fired, reprimanded, admonished, or retrained without the direct and threatening involvement of the union. Action against a government employee that does not meet with union approval can cause 'work slow-downs' and other disruptive work environment problems. The end result might be that the union provides financial support for the opposing candidates in the next election especially if those candidate(s) make an under-the-table deal with the union for union bucks. THIS KIND OF UNION ACTIVITY HAS DESTROYED AND CONTINUES TO DESTROY COMPANIES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. Only the government can tolerate this employee insubordination because the government is supported by the TAXPAYER (and the Federal Reserve)! If the Taxpayer won't pay higher taxes (pay-check extraction), then CONgress figures new, sneakier, and more complex means of stealing from citizens or the Fed floods the economy with more money out-of-thin-air to fund these expansions. Government will never go out of business except taxpayer money will disproportionately be redistributed to union workers unless genuinely insulated elected officials can be found who will defund and/or eliminate unnecessary departments/agencies and reduce the entire government to the barest, most efficient form. Government can no longer be a workfare employer of last resort.
Government Employee Unions contribute their forced-dues (compulsory as a condition of employment) to Democrat and sympathetic Republican candidates. The same union members, the staff of elected Democrats and Republicans sit at the contract negotiation table where excessive salaries (40% higher than private sector) and lavish benefit packages (pensions that pay $100-200K a year at retirement) plus multiple sick days, holidays, and vacation days are "negotiated". If any candidate or incumbent stands up against a specific proposal to add (or increase an existing) agency or generally stands up to cut goverment, all of the financial resources of the unions are used in the next election to defeat the incumbent or a challenging opponent who espouses any government cutting policy. Does anyone see the conflict-of-interest?
I estimate that one-third to one-half of government employees do productive work for only two hours a day. The net result is that GOVERNMENT MUST GROW! In the book Shadowbosses, the author writes that their are only two groups of people in the USA --- Pie-makers and Pie-eaters or Taxpayers and Taxreceivers. In the private sector, most unions are careful not to demand too much for fear of driving their employer into bankruptcy or out of business entirely. In the public sector, the Pie-eaters expand their government gravy train endlessly at will and the Federal reserve and the Pie-makers pay for the never-ending government expansion. More and more union members are hired every year to continue this de facto corruption.
FROM Shadowbosses:
"The percentage of private sector workers in unions has been declining since the 1950s, both because unionized businesses have been failing and because workers in new businesses don't choose to unionize. Basically, private sector unions have been driving themselves out of business for sixty years."
"Government employee unions are a totally different animal. Government employee unions use politics as the central plank of their business plans --- unlike private sector unions, which have far less need for politics to maintain their bottom line."
"Then, these unions keep our government inefficient by preventing it from reorganizing, streamlining, and privatizing government services, because more efficient government would mean less union dues revenue. There will be a tipping point when our government gets so big that the last remaining taxpayers in America will no longer be able to support the enormous cost of running our government. And we are rapidly approaching this point."
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NO MATTER WHAT YOU HEAR OR READ about how government can cure all ills --- poverty, starvation, ignorance --- Free Market Capitalism with limited, unintrusive government throughout history always builds a much more prosperous economy in which all have the opportunity to gain wealth and private property.
Maybe our current government socialists and progressives should take a history class at their nearest college!
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