Let My People Go

This is a great country. By virtue of the security offered by the expanse of the oceans, our country was able to develop in relative peace. Our vast natural resources enabled our economy to grow and produce a standard of living unmatched in the world. The United States was the only place in the world where a man could litterally begin life in poverty and by the product of his efforts alone, raise himself out of poverty and achive wealth and success. No class system holds a man down. No caste system denied opportunity. The product of a man's efforts were his to do with as he saw fit. We were a nation of a strong and free people. As a result, the citizenry of the United States of America achieved wealth and success an order of magnitude above that achieved by any other country in the history of the world. While the impoverished masses of other countries eat grass and live in huts with dirt floors, America's poor watch Oprah on color TV's in air conditioned comfort.


Today, our government is about to address the poverty problem. By nationalizing our banks, our government will begin to work through the social injustices and economic inequity inherent in our economic system. The Banks will no longer be run by those who have invested in them, but by a government who seized them. Because they are run by the government, the banks will no longer be operated for profit. They are vehicles for social change.

The corrupt wealthy are being dispossed of their ill gotten gain, and power returned to the people. Redistribution of the wealth is a good and rightious reform, or, at least that is the story that CBS/ABC/NBC sells. Interestingly, none of this will lift a single person from poverty. It will simply add to the numbers of the impoverished. Is it just me, or does it seem that a government program that seeks a more equal distribution of poverty is just fundamentally wrong. The law of unintended consequences is an intersting thing. The question, however, is whether or not this is actually an 'unintended' consequence. Many believe as General Powell said yesterday, governmental dependence is a good thing.

Not long ago, it was said that our failing automobile industry could not be allowed to collapse. Turns out that was wrong. Actually, it can collapse, but not entirely. After dumping billions of dollars into automobile industry because it is simply to big to fail, it has been decided that bankruptcy is, after all, an option. This wasn't an option until we pumped billions into the this black hole? Of course not. The billions went to the UAW.

In an impressive display of selective reasoning that only government experts can understand, our government has determined that it was a failure to producing enough unprofitable eco-box, hybrid cars that caused the collapse of the American automobile industry, and not the insane UAW contracts that rendered GM, Chrysler and Ford economically unviable. Soon, thanks to the abandonment of SUV production, and the increase in Hybrid production, Americans can to continue to subsidize the auto industry, and a government subsidy to buy expensive Hybrids because we have a 'right' to a car.

The really weird thing about all this, is that we get it all for free. Absolutly free. Will we ever pay for all this? Nope. Not us. We won't pay for it, but you can bet your sweet bippy that our kids and our grandchildren will. Our kids, too young to vote, and our grandchildren not yet born, are being spent into a life of poverty and debt servitude so deep that they will never emerge into a prosperity anywhere near that which we have enjoyed most of our lives. All this so we can force GM to produce cars we don't want to buy. When we prop up GM, and force them to produce Hybrids that no one will buy, we are forcing our kids to buy us cars we do not want.

Clearly, investments and possessions are no longer safe. If your vote is countered by the tide of votes cast by those who profit from the government treasury, then you can not change your government. If that government can seize your income and possessions, that of your childrens, and your children's children's, and distribute it today to those whom it favors, and you have no recourse, then I would argue that it no longer is your government. It has become your captor.

We know who the President is.

I'm looking for Moses.