The End of Activism?

One question which intrigues me is whether Communal Medicine will spell the end of political activism in America.

Throughout the years, activists have been imprisoned and jailed regularly. But in order to do those things, a public trial has been required, and people have been willing to risk the possibility of lots of time in jail in order to petition their government for redress of wrongs. So far, I can think of few activists who have been killed for their beliefs in America.

But what happens when the state has the power of life and death over a large percentage of it's population, and means to kill them that requires no review and costs nothing? When they can kill inconvenient people by simply refusing them medical care, and refusing them the right to pay for their own? Will there be anybody left to fight the system if fighting the system means a miserable death by slow disease, with no possibility of going elsewhere? This is where we're going as we approach Single Payer Health Care, otherwise known as Absolute State Power over Every Life.

And possibly also known as the end of Activism in America.

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China may get it!

I'm not sure if China is getting it, but there is a good sign that they are: their exports are falling, and their GDP is rising. That indicates, to me, that they either have figured out or will figure out that they do *not* depend on the United States. Why? Because if they can produce, and we can't buy and consume their products, they don't have a problem. They can consume their products themselves. Which means they have no reason to bankrupt themselves by continuing to lend dollars to Americans so we can take their product off their hands.

If they are getting it, and they can explain it to others, the American Government is in real trouble. The Number One cash crop in America is ... oddly enough ... cash. We print and export little green pieces of paper, and in return get all the stuff we need.

What is the solution for America? Restore our ability to produce by rolling back government. Jobs will flow back into America. Produce, produce, produce!

A country makes itself poorer by consuming. It makes itself richer by producing.

Paul Krugman caused the Federal Reserve Collapse

In the words of the perp:

NYT Editorial, August 2nd, 2002

To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip.html

For more of the heinous malpractice of the butcher, see: http://blog.mises.org/archives/010153.asp

The Boiling Frog

There is an old saying that you can boil a live frog in a frying pan, if you turn the heat up slowly enough. The frog won't notice that he's getting hot until it's too late. I don't know if that story is true, but it appears to be true about taxpayers.

Our taxes, the restrictions on our liberties, the invasions of our privacy, the indignities of travel, and many other flames are being turned up under us every year, and things are getting worse with greater and greater speed.

Well, this frog is standing up to croak "Hey! America! Wake up! They're boiling us alive". These posts will be my cries of anguish, as I watch the remains of what was once almost a free market economy (think before 1912) cleared away, and a Socialist structure, destined to fail, is built in its place.

Let it not be said that nobody cared, that nobody tried, that nobody fought.