Comments on: The Curious Economics of our Times http://www.redstate.com/alchemist17/2008/12/19/the-curious-economics-of-our-times/ Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:19:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: woodsman http://www.redstate.com/alchemist17/2008/12/19/the-curious-economics-of-our-times/#comment-38 woodsman Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:45:00 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/alchemist17/?p=20#comment-38 The voters and the politicians enjoy a symbiotic relationship where both feed off of each other. Those that reach the lofty levels of power are intoxicated by it and refuse to release it unless they are eventually voted out. This may have been the impetus behind the founding fathers to put all of the checks and balances into our system. When one party controls all of the system, there are no checks on those voted in (unless they do something really stupid enough to get the people fired up). I think we have been seeing a case of "short-term" vision with blinders on. No one is paying attention to long-term effects and prudence has not been adhered to in planning for the future. The mess we are in right now is gratis of the government I feel due to their never-ending quest to benefit someone. Unfortunately, their view of benefits is relegated to a few at the expense of many. If there are no bumps in the road to wake them up, they (voters & politicians) remain asleep at the wheel. The gradual erosion of fiscal values will soon become the norm, much as the desire by some to insist the Constitution is a living document to be changed at will. By the time damage is recognized most will have become comfortable with the existing state of affairs and think it normal. The voters and the politicians enjoy a symbiotic relationship where both feed off of each other. Those that reach the lofty levels of power are intoxicated by it and refuse to release it unless they are eventually voted out.

This may have been the impetus behind the founding fathers to put all of the checks and balances into our system. When one party controls all of the system, there are no checks on those voted in (unless they do something really stupid enough to get the people fired up).

I think we have been seeing a case of “short-term” vision with blinders on. No one is paying attention to long-term effects and prudence has not been adhered to in planning for the future. The mess we are in right now is gratis of the government I feel due to their never-ending quest to benefit someone. Unfortunately, their view of benefits is relegated to a few at the expense of many.

If there are no bumps in the road to wake them up, they (voters & politicians) remain asleep at the wheel. The gradual erosion of fiscal values will soon become the norm, much as the desire by some to insist the Constitution is a living document to be changed at will.

By the time damage is recognized most will have become comfortable with the existing state of affairs and think it normal.

]]> By: alchemist17 http://www.redstate.com/alchemist17/2008/12/19/the-curious-economics-of-our-times/#comment-37 alchemist17 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:13:02 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/alchemist17/?p=20#comment-37 It's the "liberal voters" that really stymie me. If I think of cases where voting more power to the government "for our own good" actually worked out, I can only come up with Cincinnatus and George Washington. They were successful because they gave power back or refused it in the first place. What so convinces the liberal voters that we'll get a Washington or Cincinnatus instead of enabling a Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Chairman Mao, Mussolini, Napoleon, etc? It just seems that putting people in power and "clearing out roadblocks to advance progress" while simultaneously disarming is the historical equivalent of Russian Roulette. It’s the “liberal voters” that really stymie me. If I think of cases where voting more power to the government “for our own good” actually worked out, I can only come up with Cincinnatus and George Washington. They were successful because they gave power back or refused it in the first place. What so convinces the liberal voters that we’ll get a Washington or Cincinnatus instead of enabling a Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Chairman Mao, Mussolini, Napoleon, etc? It just seems that putting people in power and “clearing out roadblocks to advance progress” while simultaneously disarming is the historical equivalent of Russian Roulette.

]]> By: woodsman http://www.redstate.com/alchemist17/2008/12/19/the-curious-economics-of-our-times/#comment-36 woodsman Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:44:09 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/alchemist17/?p=20#comment-36 All of this fosters dependence on the liberals, so that the self-serving gain more support to perpetuate the same. Seriously, I don't think they give a rat's behind about the people themselves, just their votes to remain in a position of influence. And like the coyote, they get back up every time... All of this fosters dependence on the liberals, so that the self-serving gain more support to perpetuate the same.

Seriously, I don’t think they give a rat’s behind about the people themselves, just their votes to remain in a position of influence. And like the coyote, they get back up every time…

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