Inertia- the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion.
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Nope. I am not going to do it. I will not make this about some "law" from physics. Not that there is anything wrong with that - the law of inertia is a cornerstone concept in understanding how our universe works. No, this has to do with the inertia of something much more massive than the known universe - our Federal Government.
I knew this was coming. It started last night and I saw it again on the morning news. Some agent of government status quo said "It this sequester goes through, it will end up costing the government more than it saves!". Just before I yelled "poppycock" or something worse, I was stopped in my tracks by a profound thought - he was right. Our government has become like a juggernaut - a voracious behemoth which we have allowed to develop a life of its own.
One of my favorite phrases from Economics is "something is increasing at a decreasing rate". Boy, it that does not sum up the growth in our government. Nothing really goes in reverse, and programs seldom die. At best, they will slow down. If you look at our nation's debt clock, it continues to spin like a top. Trillions in revenue is collected every year and then all of it, plus whatever can be borrowed or printed, is spent. The "beast" continues to enslave millions and many of the enslaved continue to advocate for the beast to grow even larger. Those that worship at the shrine of Keynesian Economics join with the enslaved to pronounce that only government intervention (and lots of it) and monetary policy (the Fed), can tame the marketplace to ensure growth and stability. Meanwhile, the only "growth" we see is in the "beast".
In Atlas Shrugged, a key moment was when one of the principals said [sic] "The Government takes what they want, and then taxes what little you have left". Even though Ayn Rand tried to paint a fictional, dystopian society, I fear that is where we are headed. Have we truly created a "beast" that controls us rather than visa versa? Is there nothing anyone can do, or are we destined to sit on the sidelines and watch this slow motion disaster consume us all?
The "beast" has been defined as being so big, so powerful, it has taken on the physical law of inertia. If it continues to grow, it will become so massive it will also take on the physical law of gravity. It is time to once again become the master of the "beast", and not the enslaved.
One of my favorite phrases from Economics is "something is increasing at a decreasing rate". Boy, it that does not sum up the growth in our government. Nothing really goes in reverse, and programs seldom die. At best, they will slow down. If you look at our nation's debt clock, it continues to spin like a top. Trillions in revenue is collected every year and then all of it, plus whatever can be borrowed or printed, is spent. The "beast" continues to enslave millions and many of the enslaved continue to advocate for the beast to grow even larger. Those that worship at the shrine of Keynesian Economics join with the enslaved to pronounce that only government intervention (and lots of it) and monetary policy (the Fed), can tame the marketplace to ensure growth and stability. Meanwhile, the only "growth" we see is in the "beast".
In Atlas Shrugged, a key moment was when one of the principals said [sic] "The Government takes what they want, and then taxes what little you have left". Even though Ayn Rand tried to paint a fictional, dystopian society, I fear that is where we are headed. Have we truly created a "beast" that controls us rather than visa versa? Is there nothing anyone can do, or are we destined to sit on the sidelines and watch this slow motion disaster consume us all?
The "beast" has been defined as being so big, so powerful, it has taken on the physical law of inertia. If it continues to grow, it will become so massive it will also take on the physical law of gravity. It is time to once again become the master of the "beast", and not the enslaved.
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