Masopher's Mind

Economists foresee the dawning of an “era” of bigger government in the United States. With an all but inevitable Democratic Whitehouse and an accompanying Democratic Senate/house of representatives the influence of government will become gargantuan. With events like Katrina, and the 2008 financial crash, the existing government sees the opportunity to shore up their numbers and regulate every possible thing they can. The logic behind a big government is to intervene and save people from themselves and from each other: “Bankers were too greedy”, “homebuyers were too dumb”, “laws were too lax”. George W. Bush the President who presided over the 3 biggest disasters in recent American History (perhaps in all American history) spent most of his time vacationing before 9/11. After that he was doomed to 8 years of a gaffe filled existence being hated, fighting losing wars and watching his country fall apart. George was hoping that the country would run itself; the White House would have been an extension of his carefree, privileged, National Guard-Arbusto-Governor life.

As amazing as that might sound the concept of an oligarchy is not alien or ancient, unfortunately for G.W. lazing around in Texas taking kickbacks from his rich supporters was not to be his fate. With the competence of a tourist being thrust into a warzone Bush waddled lamely through his 8 years as the world advanced in complexity and perceived threat. Russian relationships cooled as Franco-German Europe surged for dominance, and Oil revenue gave the Russians hope. NATO Europe also became more ambitious greedily eyeing former Soviet states while fearing Russian reprisal and “rollback”. African Nations mismanaged and misappropriated billions of donated money while OPEC countries manipulated oil prices. Even in the East, China prepared to unveil itself with India not too far behind. Large companies and groups took advantage of these factors manipulating greed and base emotion to their advantage.

Regions and companies have all grown but America has grown comparatively smaller. It has shrunk in good will, power, influence and finance. The George Bush era has pilfered all of that good will, military power, diplomatic influence and money to further the ends of  an Oligarchic class of families barely different from the Gazprom, Chinese Communist Party and BP oligarchs living on the other side of the world; barely discernable from the clans in Pakistan and chieftains in Africa.

Democrats now promise a big fat government, children of these Oligarchs and long working administrators filling up newly created job titles and dusty government offices. Papers to stamp, forms to fill, red tape to create, committees to show up for and people to ‘monitor’. Checks and balances, guardians for the guardians, “i” dotters and “t” crossers a lot of people to blame so that when things go wrong (as they must) there will be a lot of papers to stamp, forms to fill out and red tape to cut through and committees to convene before they blame it on the previous administration.

The 700 billion bailout is the beginning of the coddling of the nation that the Democrats are so used to. Murdering indigenous people falls onto page three and self indulgence, self pity and self praise become a priority. Even as I write both Democrats and Republicans squawk that “we need to do more”, we need to validate our jobs by worrying about you, because you are too dumb to take care of yourself. “We need to get paid – not for producing, inventing, leading or even thinking – we need to get paid for administrating.”

I stand by this thought; it was not the lack of regulation that brought about this stock market crash but the circumvention and breaking of laws, the buying off of government and private sector individuals that were being paid to administrate. I saw this first hand I heard this being done and I do not believe that these were isolated or special cases.

Liberal and libertarian voices have been drowned out by:

a)      fearful and mislead people

b)      misleading and corrupt people.

It was a free market that brought prosperity to the USA and to Europe a free market that brought prosperity to China and Russia and it will be a free market that would correct any financial woes. The strongest survive and their genes and habits perpetuate, supporting the weak breeds weakness. Thats what big Government is all about, weak people who dont do anything constructive coddling equally weak people who dont want to do anything constructive all riding on the backs of those who are strong.