Антон Николаевич Геля
America under enemy rule and the world as it is
Worldwide if the peoples would folow our lead and also fire 90% of the governments, reducing 90% of their powers and budgets, then they would solve 90% of their problems and they would have 90% freer and more prosperous life.
If some lazy souls don't want to make decisions and take care of themselves– believe me, a government will exitedly jump on the oppurtunity to do so if one agress to sell a birth right…but at a price… and the price will go higher and higher by the time. It's going to cost you majority of your liberties and money, and it will cost life to the society as a whole.
Government is a very sneaky enemy. It uses noble sounding and emotionally compelling causes to initiate its slippery-slope death spiral to national suicide. "The government will take care of the cripples..don't they deserve (a government) protection, even if it takes a little bit of coercion?" It's a rethoric, a demagoguery– "a little bit" of rape is still the rape. What the incapacitated persons and the society as a whole deserve and will benefit from is keeping our enemy government out of picture. Our enemy government will use any excuse to grab more power and at some point of no return it grabbed enough powers to grab even more powers withous even asking us, the people, anymore. So, no matter how emotionally compelling or reasonably sounding the proposal is– if it is gives more power to the government, if it does use mandates, if it worsens the government control– just say big "NO". The society, the self-regulation processes in the form of private charities will take much better care of all folks that really need help without gradual destruction of our society, as any government interventions does.
Any task you want the Big Government to do inevitably descends to the common pathway: in the long run, it will gradually kill the country, however improbable it may sound. It doesn't matter how reasonable, logical or innocent the proposal seems, it doesn't matter how well you think you defined the goals and the limitations. The government will twist the law around to its own liking, and any government likes only 2 things: your powers and money. You want to use the government to fix ecology? The government will use it as a pretext to grab more power and more your money and eventually it will kill the country without solving the problem. You want government to solve economic problems (caused by the government over-regulation in the first place)? The government will use it as an excuse to grab more power and more money, ruining economy, greatly diminishing incentives to work hard and in the end it will gradually kill the country. Pick any problem– government will solve nothing, but it will create more and more problems while "solving" original one until it destroys the country. Government's cure is always worse than the original problem. The only real solution is to 100% remove the government from the "problem solving" business leaving to it only extremely narrow scope of activities that WE, THE PEOPLE allow government to do: some foreign affairs, some national defense and some crime fighting (even in these 3 areas the citizens in 90% will do better job). Everything else must be out of reach of our enemy government, just like it was delineated in the original Constitution. No government involvement in society life, no government role in economy regulation. Zero. Anything more than zero meets definition of "too much government". Nothing is perfect, so the self-regulation is not perfect– it is slow and requires patience, but self-regulation with the feedback loop (a.k.a. free market and free competition) is THE ONLY WAY to optimize society and economics, and it is the only way for a country to survive. The chain of events "statism=>socialization=> islamization" kills Europe and it will kill America too unless we, the people resurrect our Constituion and save America from its totalitarian government. Single most important aspect of freedom is "freedom from the government".
You might mistakenly think that since the government consists of human being that it is the human entity. Unfortunately, not so. As they noted in Rome "Senatores– boni viri, senatus– mala bestis", which means "The senators are decent guys, but the Senate as a whole is malicious beasts". The same building material can be used to build a shrine, a library of a gallows. Government by definition is your enemy, it competes with you for your decision making powers and for your money. Even if you elect good guys, if the government is "built" out of "decent " bricks the government as an entity is still your enemy. Government is always bad, but you can determine how bad it will be by how much power and money you delegate to your enemy government. You can decide to have a small enemy government, a mid-size enemy government, or a big powerful enemy government. Just remember– as soon as you give life to the Frankenstein monster of the government then it will decide on its own what todo, and it always chooses to grab more power and money unless you follow the Founding Fathers' wisdom and chain down your enemy government with the chains of original Constitution (not twisted and watered down today's "progressive" version of it), guarded but unlimited freedom of speech and the right of the people to bear arms. 1st Amendment warns us when the individual liberties are threatened by our enemy government and 2nd Amendment preserves the rest of them.
I suggest reading "Why government doesn't work" by Harry Browne. Nice book and very correct in the domestic part, especially the list of measures that he would took if he would be a president. Kind of naive about isolationism policy though. Islamofascism tries to take over the whole world. If we don't fight Shariah law also all over the world then they still will come to destroy us here. Being nice to jihadists doesn't change their goals which is to kill all the infidels and take over the world. As the worst form of totalitarianism, islamofascism knows that the main obstacle to islamofascism is the beacon of freedom, America. And that's why they try to destroy America as a single remaining fortress of freedom in the world. Jihadis' accomplice in the White House does his best to destroy America too. No amount of appeasement, of dhimmitude, of submission will change the fact that destruction of America is the crucial objective of the world-wide jihad. It doesn't matter what we say or do– as long as America stays the freest country in the world, then it will be the main target of ALL the freedom-haters from soft Euro-totalitarians and harder communist/post-communist totalitarians to the worst totalitarians ever– islamofascists. Soft European totalitarians just envy us, more totalitarian regimes like China, Russia and Venezuela hate us and undermine our positions and the islamofascists wage the full-blown war against us using all the means at their disposal.
To mention once more just a few reasons why government never works:
a) All the processes in such complex systems in the dynamic stability state (such as life, economy, society and the like) with innumerable factors interacting in a real time and with indefinite numbers of possible outcomes THE ONLY WAY to optimize the process and the outcomes is the self-regulation with the tight feedback loop. The tighter the feedback loop is-the better tuned the process and the better outcomes are.
b) 300 million of Americans combined represent a huge wisdom of ages, of personal experiences, of individual responsibilites, of traditions and the habits of the decision making for themselves. Meanwhile any government consists of very few people who typically are narrow-minded specialists in a very narrow area but they have big and arrogant heads and the elitist attitude "know-it-all", so even a bunch of these "experts" possess a tiniest imaginable faction of the total knowledge and experiences of 300 million of Americans. Beside, those leitist are next to zero in practical matters, these absent-minded professors and mad scientists hardly know how to tie their shoes. All they can is eloquently using fancy words to show off. All Obama's teamsters (himself included) screw up their own finances and other affairs but have a nerve to claim they can "manage" our personal affairs better than we can?
c) government actions are based on coercion, they violate people's will and the decision making process, thus, people don't want to comply;
d) government's action have zero or minimal feed back, so they interfere with the self-regulation processes, disrupt and distort them, cause disbalances, suboptimal utilization of resources and in 100% of cases they worsen the outcome. That's why Jefferson observed that the good government is the one that governs as less as possible (because whatever government does– it does it wrong). Before the government's "civil rights" and "antidiscrimination" acts of the 60-s the gap between whites and blacks was narrowing, after them it started widening. The discrimination practices slowly but surely were being rooted out by the free market forces-after the acts the government perpetuated the discrimination merely changing the object of discrimination, creating reverse discrimination. The schools were much better but after nationalization the quality of education keeps dropping to new lows. The crime rates were much lower but after the government started "war on crime, war on drugs" the crime rates skyrocketed. Despite occasional accidents, armed households prevent majority of the violent crimes, but wherever the government disarms the law abiding citizens– the murder and other crime rates jumps to the skies.
e) government actually is interested not in solving problems but in worsening them. Imagine, all the problems are solved, there is no need in the government bureaucrats and government's budget any more– they are fired or at least deprived of power and money What happens if they as usually screw up? In the name of solving one problem they actually create 10 other problems, and then for "solving " created by the government itself problems it will grab from us more power and more money– they are in business! This perverse incentives to screw up counts too.
f) The only way government acts is by using coercion, mandates and controls, and when it sets up the mandates it also puts in charge a bureaucrat, a human being, who is prone to make mistakes (to err is human) and to be corrupted by invested in him/her powers. Power corrupts, the more power-the more currupted the government is, and no change of the players "for the honest ones" will whether not help at all or help only temporarily, until the angel in the bureaucratic chair has died or retired. You cannot rely on the subjective factors, you can only rely on the objective ones: if the government has nearly no power-then there will be nearly no corruption.
g) The government has a mind on its own, no matter what the minds of the building government "bricks" are, just as a crowd psychology has nothing to do with the psychology on the individuals in the crowd. No matter what your noble intention are when you try to solve a problem through the government, the government will start twisting, distorting and shifting you bill as soon as you submit it, and in order to pass it you will have to make so many compromises, to fill it with so much pork to get the votes that in the end you will not recognise your own proposition. But what happens after the passing bill is even worse because the unelected government bureaucrats will interprete, misuse and abuse your bill the what THEY want long after you are gone. It is still not the worst– the worst part is when the men in black, the judicial activists will start re-writing from the bench and re-intepreting your law to their liking until it becomes completely opposite from the intended one. And then the un-intended consequences hit: again, when the government interferes into the immensely complex salf-regulating processes, then it's "fixing problems" resembles the most a monkey "fixing" computer of a wall clock with the stick.
In short, there is nothing you can solve through the government. Whatever the government does-it does it wrong. Proposed benefits whether never materialize or the cost of them turns up prohibitively high or the unintended consequences by far outweigh the proposed benefits or a combination of the above. Government cure is always worse than the original ill. After the dust settles, we can see that the problems have multiplied rather than solved, we are worse off than before the government intervention, the consequences are completely unpredictable to the humble human being, and the only predictable thing is that as a result of ANY government intervention the government grabbed more power, more our money and our decision making rights. The government’s actions are always failure. That is if your criteria of a success are the stated goals of the government bill, law, mandate or any other intervention. But if you do know that all that emotional crap-wrap is just a trick to make sure no one will object the proposal (under the threat of being called a racist, a sexist, a cruel person and other names just to stiffle any possible opposition) but the REAL hidden agenda of ANY government’s intervention is just another power grab, to steal more of your money and decision making power, then the goals are achieved alright. Recently John Stessel published analysis that the government’s ADA (Americans with disability act) doesn’t work at all. Surprise, surprise. Noe of the government’s acts works– all that civil rights and anti-discrimination crap-wrap inevitably failed, the results of that government interventions still hurt America, but if you do objective analysis based of the facts and outcomes– for sure the people’s “progressive” enemies in the monopolized by them MSM will call you dirty names. Statists entice the short-sighted recipients of the “benefits” with some perks, which in the long run actually worsen their conditions and prevent their real steady improvement by Free Market forces. Government’s “solutions” are always “short term gain for long term pain”. Just check out the facts and read respectable researchers such as Thomas Sowell: after “anti-discrimination” acts the gap between whites and blacks stopped narrowing (which it was doing before, slowly but steadily, due to the free market forces) and right away the gap started widening. On other hand, the self-regulation with the feedback loop, also known as the Free Market, is free of all the faults of the government. It is based on the objective laws of the nature, including human nature and laws of the market; it does not put in charge a human being inevitably prone to corruption and errors; it is THE ONLY WAY to optimize complex systems such as life, language, economy and society; and most importantly– IT IS THE ONLY WAY FOR A NATION TO SURVIVE. All based on the subjective totalitarianism systems are the dead end of civilization, they are doomed, they go extinct before our eyes in Europe, Japan, former USSR and the like. If you think about other countries where the demographic catastrophy has not materialized yet-it is coming. The birth rate is dropping even in the countries like Marocco, it's just a matter of time. As freer the market– the better, and in order to survive the country must be more than 50% based on the self-regulation, on the free (ideal case is 100% Free Market based country, where the only function of the government is SOME of the national defence, SOME of the forein affairs and SOME of the law and order. Even in these areas Free Market has a definite, important and evergrowing significance. Majority of the high tec defense products are created by the Free Market, private security companies such as Blackwater do a good job (as confirmed by the "progressive" MSM hatred towards them), armed population prevents over 75% of the crimes (in the Freer Market based states voting for the conservatives where the government is friendlier to the us, the people, and doesn't try to disarm us, the murder rate is 4 times lower than in the socialist states that voted for Obama and that just love disarming the people). Direct diplomacy people-to-people, including tourism, is much more preferable way of diplomacy than our-enemy-government to their-enemy-government foreign affairs.
The only disadvantage of the Free Market self-regulation is that it is the slow process that requires a patience. Of course, the patience is a vurtue, but a very rare one. The impatient ones shout: "Government-do something!". And the government will respond immediately (because the government is happy to find or more frequently to create ANY excuse to grab more power) – by wasting your money, by grabbing your decision making powers, by controlling you more and more.
Government is the bottle neck of the totalitarianism:
All kinds of the totalitarians use the coercive powers of government to impose their will on the population, to hurt the society and eventually to destroy the country. Big and strong government is the universal tool of the enemies of the people, of enemies of freedom, just like the Free Market and individual liberties are the universal tools of solving all the world's problems. Without strong government the ruling elite, the enemies of the people cannot impose their will on you. Thus, even though it is worthwhile fighting each and all totalitarian ideologies on their own "merit", exposing them for what they are, but it is by far more important and practical to minimize the powers of a government as their universal instrustrument of coercion. Those naive freedom-lovers who hope they can use the same instrument of government to protect the freedom are wrong: the government is a monster that has a mind on its own. No matter what your good intentions are– any well meaning laws is distorted by the government and eventually start serving exactly opposite from the original purpose. Besides, according to the law of unintended consequences, any law is an intervention into the self-regulating mechanisms of the society, of economics, thus, the government's "cure" is always worse than the ill it is supposed to "cure". Hence, the minimization of the size, scope, budget and powers of the government is THE ONLY WAY to preserve interrelated individual liberties, freedom (most importantly Free Market), prosperity of the country and individual succes in the pursuit of happiness. Strong government is like a dangerous weapon of mass destruction laying on the road unattended and any passing by scumbag is free to pick it up and to use against us, the people. Keep your enemy by definition, your government small and weak and on a short leash. The dragon of the government must fear us, the people – then and only then there is liberty.
Totalitarian slipery-slope:
Totalitarians always use a nice sounding and on the first glance rationally looking baits to entice the people to initial step on the totalitarian slippery slope path. The key is: does it use the government as an instrument of "fixing" true or made up problem? Does it increase government's size, powers, budget and the scope? If the answer is "YES" to ANY of those questions– then KILL THE BILL! It will never "solve" the problem, but instead it inevitably will create innumerous other unintended problems, and most important– it's a beginning of the self-destructive path to the national suicide, a totalitarian slippery slope to the dead end of the civilization. We saw it in the Euro-Zoo, and we don't want to kill America too. Paradoxically may it sound but it is always true. You want to improve economy through the government actions? It will kill the country. You want to save nature and poor darling animals via the govenment laws? It will kill the country. You want to improve the education, especially for the poor kids, using the government's run public education? It will kill the country. The list is endless. How come? Because any government action in fact (not in empty words) serves only one purpose: the further power grab. When the government action inevitably results in more problems than it "solved"– obviously, government can claim that it takes more government and more taxes "to solve" the problems that previous government actions created, and the more power government has-easier to commit another power grab. Power and money, money and power-that's all any government is about. And the chain reaction continues– the government grabs more people's power and money, as a snow ball. Meanwhile inherently totalitarian leftist media will cover up for the Big Government failures, distorting and misinterpreting truth, hiding information and the like. MSM also need Big Government to impose their delusional agendas of "social engineering, social justice" and similar mad schientist crap. The society can and should mainly be self-governed using moral code, ethics, traditions, wisdom of ages and citizens associations and societies. Government should serve only as 911 service when there is an emergent lapse, when the threat exceeds what this person (or group) can handle. Majority of crimes are already prevented when criminals know that any home can be armed. In disarmed by the government states and cities (Washington, DC, NYC, Chicago) disarmed citizens cannot prevent crimes and the criminals know it. So, in those cities factual cooperation between the criminals and the government boosts the crime rate sky high. But the government doesn't care– as an enemy of the people the government's main goal is to disarm the people.
In a similar way leftist totalitarians recruit young rebelious minds in the universities. There is a massive highjacking of all "noble " causes by the "progressive" enemies of the people. They find attractively looking baits for everyone, but joining any of the highjacked by the totalitarian "progressives" so called "noble causes" will inevitably bring them to the voting booth of the infiltrated by the totalitarians Democrats gang, of the enemies of America. Same slippery slope to the national suicide in the end of the road, even though it sounds paradoxically. One wants to be a vegetarian? Sounds funny, but majority of them will end up voting for the "progressive" enemies of the people. Want to save bunnies and kitties, so the new medicines will be tested on you and your children instead of animals? Then you help the Democ-rats to kill the Constitution and economy instead. Decided to join the special interest groups that give unfair advantages to minorities (which falsely called themselves "human right activists")? The you help ruining free market and "you get what you earned" fairness, slaying the goose of the Free Market that lays golden eggs, and as a result the whole country gets poorer. Only Free Market, slowly but surely, can balance out tendencies and optimize the outcome.
Totalitarians apparently are unable to comprehend that "simpletons, sheep, morons" Americans make better decisions regarding their own affairs than arrogant "progressive" elite despite their higher education and seemingly sharp wits. "Progressives" are in denial of the fact that each one of 300 million Americans knows about his/her affairs more than anyone in the world, that thay have direct incentives and potentially both negative and positive feedback loop, so they have the highest chance to make a right decision than any bureaucrat in Washington, DC or in the state capital. Besides, if one American screws up– he/she screws up only him/herself, while when Screwer-up-in-Chief inevitably screws up– he screws up the whole world. Whatever government does– it does it wrong, From scientific point of view it is impossible for a government to make a right move because government has no or weak feedback loop, thus, whatever it does– it distorts and hinders the only possible mechanism of optimization of the complex systems in the dynamic stability state– self-regulation with the tight feedback loop. The situation is even worse when the government is infiltrated by "progressive" totalitarians because they are blinded by their ideology; they see distorted by the lense of political correctness picture of the world; they view reality via partisan prysm and then they try to analyze already distorted "reality" picture using false psychological stereotypes in their brain. Reality never conforms to their distorted vision of the world, so they just ignore or hide reality and they attack anyone who dares to show them the truth.
The ban of Shariah law around the world (not of Islam, but of antihumane Shariah laws), on other hand, might make the Muslims reform Islam, removing the anti-humane Shariah laws from Quran and making Islam an ordinary religion just like any other that possibly WILL BE compatible with the humanity. So far Islam that includes the hateful Shariah laws IS NOT a true religion and Islam IS NOT compatible with any civilization, with any other law system. Today's Islam is an engine of jihad (which is the war of Islam against humanity that started 1,400 years ago by first islamic terrorist named Muhammed and never ended).
The problem with all the "reforms" of the government– they don't work, it’s just against the laws of nature to make them work even theoretically– you cannot "reform" your enemy to be "a user friendly"; you cannot use the coercive force of the government to combat coercive force of the same government; the squid of government after any partial reforms quickly regenerates and keeps destoying the country with the accelerating speed. The only possible solution is to basically abolish 99% of the government AT ONCE and FOR GOOD, using Constitutional Amendmends – otherwise the vocal minority of the population that in a short term does benefit from a particular government-run program will object any meaningful reforms. However, when ALL the government programs eliminated for the long term benefits of ALL Americans, then the sweeping changes and the resurrection of the Constitution of the limited government can be possible. It's like easier to return back 10 un-earned dollars if instead you are getting back -or, better to say, the government never takes away in taxes your 1,000 of dollars, earned by you.
What's the ideal structure of power? The one with the POWER TO THE PEOPLE! What's today's one? The with POWER TO THE PEOPLE'S ENEMY– to the government. You see, how much power the feds already have usurped?
Solutions?
1) Balanced budget Amendment. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Minimize the powers, thus, minimize the corrpution. Reinstate the original Constitution, confirm the only powers they we, the people, give to each level of the government, and it should be about 1% of today's budget and powers. Put a ceiling on the budget in % of the last year GDP, and not more than 13%. Explicitly prohibit collective bargaining if the paxpayors money (public funds) are involved at any level of the government because socialist labor unions push America into the bancruptcy abyss even fasters than feds– federal debts right now about 14 trillion dollars while total unfunded liabilities to socialist labor unions are 130 tillion dollars. Deficits? Un-funded liabilities? Let the government pay its debts, don't let it pay from your pocket. How? Let them sell their assets– lands, buildings and so forth.
2) Two Term Amendment– for all the elected and un-elected government officials of all levels (not just feds) not more than presidential 8 years. No more professional politicians, no more entranched enemies of the people in the governments. The same comes for 100% of the laws with no grandfathered exceptions. Only the Constitution is forever, all the laws expire automatically in 8 years unless their merits and unintended consequences discussed on the case by case base. Explicit prohibition of law package extensions. Let our enemies bureucrats fight for each law individually. Today they steal our freedom, pass the law and it's their's forever. They keep encroaching our rights and freedoms since 1913. Do you know how many new laws and mandates the bureaucrats imposed on us just on one day of Jan 01, 2010? Over 40,000, Unbelievable! So, let them go through the same laws all over again and again– it will keep our enemies busy.