Surprise, surprise!
OK, I admit it. The wide-spread reaction to the recent SCOTUS decision that it's acceptable for the government to steal from the poor to give to the rich (so long as the gov't gets its cut, of course) has caught me flat-footed. I am surprised.
What surprises me is the surprising amount of surprise the 5-4 decision has engendered amongst those who ought to know better. Surprisingly enow, these folks are mainly statists, or--better yet--Statists, who think the gov't is the cat pyjamas so long as its activities suit the paradigm required by their own political philosophies.
Hell, the capitolists at various levels have been practicing Robin Hoodlumism since time immoral. (Not a single typo in that sentence, folk). According to Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of The Land of the Free(tm) only the "well bred and rich" were to be recognized in governmental circles. "Lower people," as he liked to refer to them, were to have little or no part in government and would be controlled by "coercion of laws and coercion of arms." That wasn't even a new idea when old Alex got hold of it, though. It had been around as long as the concepts of "rich" and "well bred" had existed.
But Hamilton and his cohort had a new wrinkle to add and for the gullible it continues to work right up to and including today. The real trick has been to convince us "lower people" that we really are in charge of how the country is run. But as it was then, is now, and ever shall be it is the "well bred and rich" who are actually in charge. They pretty much run things any which way they damned well please as they go about their charade of caring for the little fellow.
We needn't worry about our property, though--it isn't ours, anyway. We can't "own" it without their permission; they must always have their cut ("taxes" they call it); they will remove it from us--or us from it--when it suits them. Their actual message to us is: "We are your rulers; you will do as you are told or we will kill you." If you don't believe me, try dropping out by not paying your taxes and then resist to your utmost when their agents come to remove you.
The late ChiCom chairman, Mousey Dung, had it nailed when he said, "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun."
The Supremes have actually done us a favour by hanging out that dirty laundry for all of us to see.
And that's the way it is.
What surprises me is the surprising amount of surprise the 5-4 decision has engendered amongst those who ought to know better. Surprisingly enow, these folks are mainly statists, or--better yet--Statists, who think the gov't is the cat pyjamas so long as its activities suit the paradigm required by their own political philosophies.
Hell, the capitolists at various levels have been practicing Robin Hoodlumism since time immoral. (Not a single typo in that sentence, folk). According to Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of The Land of the Free(tm) only the "well bred and rich" were to be recognized in governmental circles. "Lower people," as he liked to refer to them, were to have little or no part in government and would be controlled by "coercion of laws and coercion of arms." That wasn't even a new idea when old Alex got hold of it, though. It had been around as long as the concepts of "rich" and "well bred" had existed.
But Hamilton and his cohort had a new wrinkle to add and for the gullible it continues to work right up to and including today. The real trick has been to convince us "lower people" that we really are in charge of how the country is run. But as it was then, is now, and ever shall be it is the "well bred and rich" who are actually in charge. They pretty much run things any which way they damned well please as they go about their charade of caring for the little fellow.
We needn't worry about our property, though--it isn't ours, anyway. We can't "own" it without their permission; they must always have their cut ("taxes" they call it); they will remove it from us--or us from it--when it suits them. Their actual message to us is: "We are your rulers; you will do as you are told or we will kill you." If you don't believe me, try dropping out by not paying your taxes and then resist to your utmost when their agents come to remove you.
The late ChiCom chairman, Mousey Dung, had it nailed when he said, "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun."
The Supremes have actually done us a favour by hanging out that dirty laundry for all of us to see.
And that's the way it is.
posted by Bob Gambs at 1:04 PM
2 Comments:
Once again, you nailed it Gambs. That's one of the reasons I subscribe to the Bulletin. You tell it like it is. I'll be reading your blog regularly.
Nice post. Keep 'em coming.
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