Ignorance is Bliss

Last week I heard Mainstream Media (MSM) types, rabidly loyal to their social cause, leg furrowing, knickers twisting and nearly apoplectic in their ebullience, joyfully echoing the Office of the President Elect BHO - PEBO statement "Only Government can solve nation's (economic) problems"

Change is already  upon us and the "anointed one" has yet to take office. It's not so unusual that a socialist lefty would propose a state solution over a private solution.

The real story is in how readily accepted socialist solutions have become in the new "Yes We Can" - err I mean "Yes The Government Can" (and will with your money) world of PEBO USA.

Even in a post modern America, the shift to government managed economy should scare everyone and not just the 48% of the payer vote.

Like a frog in pot coming slowly to boil, America's embrace of socialism has been a long, slow, concerted effort. The "52 percent-ers" have been inculcated by a "tenured instructor class" who's economic ignorance is as dangerous as it is fallacious and continues to foist the "great fiction that we can all live at the expense of others".

I recently heard Newt Gingrich say (paraphrasing here) that "Our parents generation scrimped, saved and scarified all their lives to provide for our generation, and Now our generations is diligently working and sacrificing our children's future to provide for our generation". 

What we have is "trickle up moral cannibalism" eating away at the very fabric of our beloved republic and few even seemed concerned.

Just today, in the Business Section of our local Pravda (Orlando Sentinel - who's begging for it's own bail out)  the business columnist opines:

"So you can imagine the fear running through politicians and economic-development gurus whose success is often measured by how many jobs they help create"

The author goes on to bemoan that current economic environment that will force the State to curtain spending to incent other businesses to relocate here. Source

The inference of course is that jobs come from politicians and economic-development gurus instead of business!!!! And the state must bribe other companies to move hear via loans, cash and tax incentives.

Somebody must stand up and say it: "Governments don't have ANY money for loans, cash or other incentives unless they take it , yes CONFISCATE IT from someone else first!".

The saddest commentary is that we have politicians, "economic-development gurus", and apostle of ignorance  willing to plunder existing business to incentivize  others to move here - for what: - so they too can be cannibalized?

In a Brave New World ignorance is indeed bliss - or at least doesn't raise your blood pressure. Is it time yet for the "Soma Holiday"?