by NoOneImportant » Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:34 pm
While GD is Greece's issue de jour, it in actuality, is not Greece's real problem. What we are seeing in Greece, a phenomenon that we will also soon see repeated in other socialist Utopian "experiments", is Greece's manifestation of what happens when socialist societies, as Ms Thatcher so elegantly put it "... when you run out of other people's money...." Greece, like the U.S., Spain, Italy, Ireland, and several others have been on a socialist spending bender, an irrational spending spree, created by politicians designed to feed the "something-for-nothing" mentality of their developmentally stunted electorate.
All something-for-nothing schemes require administrative theft; whether it is excessive direct taxation, the unified stealing of something from everyone via inflation, or the accrual of unsustainable public debt, matters not, and is not actually important. What is important here is that there is a significant group of "criminals" - politicians - who have come to believe that there is nothing wrong, so long as they keep nothing for themselves, with stealing from everyone to give to someone else what, in almost every case is to "buy" votes, what hasn't been earned. The deluded electorate convinces itself, over time, that so long as they are moral enough to refrain from the overt sealing of someone else's property themselves they have done nothing wrong. They just aren't quite moral enough not to take the stolen proceeds of what has been taken from someone else by a politician for their benefit.
When you run out of other people's money, and don't have the ability to print more, like the U.S. Fed, you get this enormous problem. Everyone in the mechanized theft extravaganza seeks to find out who is at fault for destroying the wonderful system that worked so well for so long - the collapsed Ponzi Scheme gone awry. So human nature being what it is, they immediately start to spend excessive amounts of time attempting to find out "what went wrong", and who is at fault, "...who caused what was so good for so long to fail." As each of the electorate members surely knows that they are not criminals for they have stolen nothing. So the witch hunt begins, stoked by the very same class who initiated the problem to begin with - self-seeking, self-absorbed, self-serving politicians. Politicians who purport themselves to be moral because they take nothing from the public coffers, but have no such compunction regarding taking political contributions numbered in the tens of millions from organization lined up at the public tough; a trough being continuously filled from political initiatives with public cash by the ship load. Politicians who again go to them now culpable, developmentally stunted electorate; politicians who then point to the most helpless in society and scream: "... they did it to us...." And that leads us to the irrational rise, in Greece's case, of Golden Dawn. And it happens because, to borrow an old mid 70s phrase, few are willing to either understand, believe, or accept that: "there is no free lunch."
While GD is Greece's issue de jour, it in actuality, is not Greece's real problem. What we are seeing in Greece, a phenomenon that we will also soon see repeated in other socialist Utopian "experiments", is Greece's manifestation of what happens when socialist societies, as Ms Thatcher so elegantly put it "... when you run out of other people's money...." Greece, like the U.S., Spain, Italy, Ireland, and several others have been on a socialist spending bender, an irrational spending spree, created by politicians designed to feed the "something-for-nothing" mentality of their developmentally stunted electorate.
All something-for-nothing schemes require administrative theft; whether it is excessive direct taxation, the unified stealing of something from everyone via inflation, or the accrual of unsustainable public debt, matters not, and is not actually important. What is important here is that there is a significant group of "criminals" - politicians - who have come to believe that there is nothing wrong, so long as they keep nothing for themselves, with stealing from everyone to give to someone else what, in almost every case is to "buy" votes, what hasn't been earned. The deluded electorate convinces itself, over time, that so long as they are moral enough to refrain from the overt sealing of someone else's property themselves they have done nothing wrong. They just aren't quite moral enough not to take the stolen proceeds of what has been taken from someone else by a politician for their benefit.
When you run out of other people's money, and don't have the ability to print more, like the U.S. Fed, you get this enormous problem. Everyone in the mechanized theft extravaganza seeks to find out who is at fault for destroying the wonderful system that worked so well for so long - the collapsed Ponzi Scheme gone awry. So human nature being what it is, they immediately start to spend excessive amounts of time attempting to find out "what went wrong", and who is at fault, "...who caused what was so good for so long to fail." As each of the electorate members surely knows that they are not criminals for they have stolen nothing. So the witch hunt begins, stoked by the very same class who initiated the problem to begin with - self-seeking, self-absorbed, self-serving politicians. Politicians who purport themselves to be moral because they take nothing from the public coffers, but have no such compunction regarding taking political contributions numbered in the tens of millions from organization lined up at the public tough; a trough being continuously filled from political initiatives with public cash by the ship load. Politicians who again go to them now culpable, developmentally stunted electorate; politicians who then point to the most helpless in society and scream: "... they did it to us...." And that leads us to the irrational rise, in Greece's case, of Golden Dawn. And it happens because, to borrow an old mid 70s phrase, few are willing to either understand, believe, or accept that: "there is no free lunch."