Ever stop to think what a refrigerator, (ice box to us oldsters), would look like if the D.C. Gang made it? Just imagine a government built refrigerator. Or a government built car, or TV set even. First of all, the refrigerator would probably cost about $5,000, break a lot, not get too cold, and use a lot of current. If it broke, a government technician would have to come out and fix it. You might have to wait a month for him to get there, and when he did, he would be totally inept, charge an arm and a leg, and probably not be able to fix it. No government does anything efficiently, economically, or timely.
Look at any government road crew, regardless of the level of government. The crew usually consists of seven men, with perhaps two working. There are a couple watching, a guy sitting in a truck, and to witness it, as I have for many decades, it is preposterous. No government does anything well. When government does anything, it is usually something to laugh about, or cringe at the cost to taxpayers.
Imagine government running the power companies or gas works, and be glad they don’t. Imagine the government making your car, and you’d get the absurd thing that the East Germans used to have because nothing else was available. ( Two cylinders, and can’t remember its name.)
Suppose the federal government ran the super markets? Food would probably cost twice as much, with a third the variety. Government run farms in communist nations were always a joke. The families would prosper if they had a couple of hundred square feet to grow stuff on, while the huge government farms lost huge amounts of money. The commies then used to punish the workers and starve them when the crops failed or they thought the slaves weren’t working hard enough.
Today, every one is wanting government to take over things such as prescriptions, health care, and the things private, for profit enterprise does now with the utmost efficiency. When there is a profit motive, for private schools as an example, the schools are wonderful. Public schools, run by governments, are a disaster. So they build bigger gyms, air condition them, and have marvelous technical devices, but still the kids don’t learn. Look at public restrooms vs. private ones, or public housing, vs. your house. Public schools and public housing cost a fortune, and work disastrously. Just imagine what government has done to the dollar, and you’ll want to get out of them. Government taxes the producers, bails out the bums, and we get more bums. Public welfare is evil. Private welfare is wonderful.
Governments, and this is what has happened to America, which makes this part 19, realizing their ineptness, think that if they exercise enough brute force and power, they can make it all come out OK. Whenever government sees something running smoothly, as for instance the internet, they want to interfere, regulate, and make it like the rest of government ’programs.’ (How I hate that word ’program!’). Railroads got started in 1829, and ran wonderfully. They build their own tracks, pay property taxes on every square inch they own, build and maintain their own safety and signal systems, improve with every new technology available, and are the envy of the world. Railroad stations in the era of profitable passenger service were the architectural marvels of the world. Government built airports and super highways, in direct competition to the railroads, and charge a pittance for their use, thereby fostering intense competition from truckers, busses, autos, and air travel. When people stopped riding trains, government took over the passenger business, and forced the railroads to run government trains at great inconvenience and loss, on tracks owned by privately owned railroads. When government bureaucrats needed more power, they decided that the railroads need regulating, and formed the FRA to meddle in railroad business, at huge cost to the railroads. Endless bureaucracies have been formed to harass industry and private enterprise.
Until a hundred years ago, all schools were non government, and kids got superb educations. Now look at the public school systems, costing billions to baby sit and teach little. The pharmacy business (I grew up in a drug store) was fine, but now government insists on taking over, and the costs, paper work, and inefficiency will be monumental. The same thing happened to medical care which is now a total mess. Government is now trying to make everyone think that vitamins and minerals are poison unless they regulate them, and it’s just another power grab of an industry. Remember when government regulated telephones? Rates were so high that no one made long distance calls except in an emergency. Government removed its controls and look at what we have now! Cell phones, three cent a minute long distance, and even free long distance, thanks to unfettered, unhindered competition for PROFIT.
As I have said a thousand times already, 99% of America’s problems are caused by government. Governments further use their muddled brains to try to “straighten out the world,” by getting involved in or starting foreign wars, which kill innocents, cost fortunes, and create ill-will everywhere. Government controls the money supply, and look at that boondoggle. Government decided, under Teddy Roosevelt, that we should own Cuba and the Philippines, and they didn’t want to be owned by us. That mess still haunts us. Governments seize as much power as they can, either being evil, or their screwed up brain power actually believing that government can do something correctly, and efficiently. When the power grabs fail, or their mess becomes so obvious to everyone, rather than backing off, they snoop, tap phones, and check every conversation and internet blog, to see if someone is telling the truth about them, so they can prosecute in the name of ’terrorism.’ There would be no ’terrorism’ if we simply minded out own business, stayed home, and became absolutely neutral.
The Bush administration has outspent, out regulated, and out snooped any previous administration in history. We are under constant surveillance from all angles, be it our phones, internet, travel, or spending. Daily, our freedoms are being robbed from us, and Americans don’t seem to care. American’s dollars are withering, but they continue to save in them. Most candidates for public office are the virtual scum of the earth, and those which aren’t are ignored by the media, so as not to gain recognition. Either that or they are lied about, shot, or scared away. (Barry Goldwater, George Wallace, Ross Perot). Could Ron Paul possibly be elected, in spite of being on Fox News this morning, and having gotten close to $10 million in contributions? Not likely. Why does the media ignore or castigate responsible candidates for public office? Because the radio and TV stations are licensed by government, and in order to keep their permission to operate, they must kowtow to the D.C. Gang. If news print decided to support a responsible candidate, they may find huge losses of advertising from invisible government pressures.
Our Constitution, in no way, and in no place, gives government permission to regulate anything but the post office and money. Look at the mess they have made of those, and especially the money, which seems to be on its last legs. Millions of people will literally walk away from their homes, which are worth less than they paid for them, thanks to the Federal Reserve, the central bank, which regulates interest rates. Why should interest rates be regulated? Why should there be a central bank? Neither are Constitutional. Our continual messes without end, have dragged our nation down to the junk heap. Billions has been sent to Citibank to save it…by an Arab nation…which now virtually owns it. Our industry has been captured by foreign entities which have no regulations and cheap labor. Without government meddling over the years, our labor force could still work for $1.00 a hour, have decent livings with their $2,500 homes, 10 cent carfare, and $275 Model A Fords, paid for with sound dollars. In other words, we would still not only be competitive, but wipe the slate of our competitors, which had huge governments, eating their life’s blood, as ours is now doing to us.
P.S. Gold and silver have their ups and downs, thanks to the marketplace and manipulation, but these things will pale into insignificance as the months and years pass. Truth will always ’out’ eventually, and there is a lot of ’truth’ in saving surplus assets in tangible gold and silver.