The
laws of supply and demand are beautiful things – expressions of logic as
elementary as the basic laws of physics, which govern everything except the
more unruly subatomic particles, which thumb their noses at laws, dress like
slobs, and listen to the kind of music that drives their parent atoms crazy.
Supply and
demand even applies to the use of government power, although the highest
imperative of socialism is to pretend otherwise. There is always enormous
demand for government. Lots of people want State power to be deployed for their
benefit, or to punish their competitors. (That’s why Big Business is not at all antithetical to Big Government.) There is
a bottomless appetite for “free” goodies. Lots of people will always believe
that any given social problem can be solved through the application of coercive
force, which they prefer to think of as “political leadership” – smart people
rolling up their sleeves and bringing order out of chaos.
Nobody likes
chaos, which is why desperate Big Government hacks, like Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid, have taken to insulting those who want smaller government by
calling them “anarchists.” A $3.6 trillion government that only spends $3.5
trillion next year would be “anarchy” under this definition. The natural desire
for orderly life is carefully and deliberately perverted into demand for
government control by the people who profit from supplying such control.....To Read More.....
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