Interesting news from Iceland. Its voters, by an almost 60-40 split, have decided not to raise their taxes by five billion dollars to replay the people in England for the money they lost in Iceland’s banking scam.
On the South end of Europe, the Portuguese don’t seem to be interested in raising their taxes to pay their debts. Neither do the Greeks, the Spaniards, or any of the other fringe economies being subsidized by the European Union.
In this country, California is not cutting expenditures while debt threatens to overwhelm the State. Wisconsin’s public sector unions are at war with those whose taxes support them. Similar battles are being fought in New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Michigan, and most other states to lesser degrees.
The common denominator is that those who are getting money from the state want more. Those who are being taxed don’t have much money. The taxers don’t care. Those who are taxed do.
What’s the Real Problem?
As catholicfundamentalism.com wants us to understand, the problem is not with the economy. The problem is not that automation has destroyed so many jobs that unemployment has to continue rising. The economic problems that the West is suffering are there because envious, second-rate intellects, mostly environmentalists, keep new jobs from being formed.
Job destruction is further exacerbated by the political forces who seek personal gain by control and disruption. These job destroyers, mostly regulators and environmentalists, are an historical constant who undermine every age and government. Louis XVI, for instance, had envious relatives who could not be kings. They worked hard to destroy the existing government, hoping that they, themselves, would have an opportunity to rise to rule out of the chaos they bring to the systems around them.
It didn’t work out for them, then. It doesn’t work out for environmentalists, today. The choice to become a destroyer exists only because The Loving Programmer set up the universe to provide us all with free will. Choosing to subvert, rather than help, one’s neighbors is an exercise of that free will. It is accompanied by the eternal consequences the Creation Program was written and downloaded to provide.
An extension of unemployment payments, a decrease of regulators, and an understanding that jealous, second and third tier minds destroy jobs as quickly as it eliminates prosperity is all that we need to make things better.
