Systemic failures in government

Systemic failures, such as waste, fraud and abuse in the Unemployment Insurance program, are so common that reports like this from Cato will pass by with a shake of the head. Government has become so large and involved in so many areas of our lives, it becomes more overloaded and inefficient everyday. Aside from the moral problem that government expansion of power erodes our freedoms, expansion of power is a practical problem. Government can't handle the responsibilities it has taken and voters have given it. As Leviathan grows and lumbers clumsily and destructively forward, Americans have to decide if they will sit passively by and allow government to destroy the nation or whether change will be made.

Statists who say government has always been inefficient and that this is the nature of government, something we have to accept if we want a large welfare state, are in denial. Statists say we can try to make government as efficient as possible, but it isn't a business, so some inefficency is expected and managable. However, we appear to have reached a tipping point. There's plenty of evidence that our statist system of government has overloaded the private sector, thus reducing the flow of funds necessary to pay for a large interventionist government. Between the regulatory agencies, welfare programs, military operations, border control, transportation, education, on and on, government has intruded so much in the private sphere it's devastated the market and free-flow of interactions regarding supply and demand. 

Statists will tell you that government spending has decreased in the last couple of years, but government spending is not the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is un-Constitutional interventions in the private sphere and unbridled interventions overseas. The State has grabbed power, and it's overwhelming the private sector. Cronyistic State Capitalism produces corporate/government enmeshment which enriches a power elite, but the market that should offer paths to properity for the middle class and those striving to move out of poverty has been frozen with uncertainty. Small businesses, innovative and creative developments are our future, but government has stopped movement forward, and it doesn't appear willing to let any power go. So, the welfare/warfare state grows, as does waste, fraud and abuse, and money coming into the government dries up -- the statist growth has to stop, and limits must be placed on government power. 

Government will not win

In the War on Business, government will not win. There are companies across the US reacting to Obama's attacks on success. Businesses have had it.

As independents and faux libertarians wring their hands worrying that Romney is just too private sector-friendly, it's time to quit the act. If you really think that more government interference in the economy is what we need, then take off the mask and embrace your statist self. If you really are worried about Romney, don't. The private sector is going to beat government back, and Romney will be easier to beat back than Obama, so this is not an election about which Presdient can "save" us, but rather which President can be stopped with the least amount of pressure and effort. We've got business to take care of, so we don't need four more years expending energy on politics just to make sure nothing real stuipid happens. No, we need someone like Romney who understands the basics and only needs to understand that the private sector has had enough with the interventions.

Morning Joe 6/11/2012 -- Why centrism will not work

On Morning Joe, Scarborough had it all to himself. Something is happening behind the scenes between Joe, Mika and the producers, and it's showing on the program. Regulars like Mark Halperin appear frustrated with the program and with Scarborough's belligerence and Mika's snarkiness.

Oh well, this morning Halperin was saying that gotcha journalism is getting old, and he said this in relation to Obama's comment about the private sector being fine. I agree with Halperin, but I wish people like Halperin would make these points when Republicans are excoriated for misstatements. The Leftists on the program, like Halperin, Steve Rattner and David Resnick, all said Obama isn't really out of touch when it comes to the state of the private sector economy, but they are wrong, because they are out of touch. Rattner had charts to show how Obama's performance is not as bad as some people say it is, and Rattner had to ignore a lot of facts just to the make the point that Obama is not as bad as completely awful -- not in creating jobs, because Obama can't create jobs, but in getting out of the way so that jobs can be created by a free market.

John Barrasso made the most pertinent points, although Scarborough patronizingly led Barrasso to the Centrist position. It's obvious Scarborough thinks he's politically superior to the likes of Barrasso and other Republicans in congress who are opposing tax increases and more spending. Scarborough, along with Sam McKinnon, David Brooks, David Frum and other Centrists, promotes the enlightened position, the Golden Mean, the Great Compromise, the Bi-Partisan Solution. Barrasso took the bait, and maybe Barrasso means it, but if he does, and if he represents other Republicans in congress, then the nation is screwed. Scarborough's idea is to promise long term reduction of entitlement spending in return for immediate, revenue-raising tax reform and infrastructure/education/research spending. Scarborough asked Barrasso if the Democrats would agree to long term entitlement reform, would he, Barrasso, agree to tax reform that raises revenues and the above mentioned spending increases. Scarborough said China is spending on these things, so we have to spend on these things to be competitive. Barrasso said he would as long as they get the promised spending cuts. This is the same Great Compromise that always brings on current spending increases and broken promises regarding entitlement reform later down the road. The cuts never materialize.

Scarborough views the global economy as a battle between States, with each State managing its economy and pumping the economy up through spending on infrastructure, research and education. Although Joe acknowledged a week or so ago that China is presently creating a bubble, he believes we should do the same thing as China but somehow avoid the bubble? Joe said we should do what China's doing, but what China's doing is leading to a giant bubble and high prices. Going back to the orginal conversation on the program this morning, about whether Obama understands the private sector, it's obvious that hardly anyone in the political realm understands the private sector in terms of a need for a free market. The political realm in America is dominated by the statist mindset. The interventionist thread ran through all the conversations on Morning Joe today, even the conversation regarding the European crisis, which is a result of decades of government interventions within European economies. Now, the experts are advising bigger interventions, which is what happens with statism -- interventions lead to bigger more confusing interventions.

Barrasso should have told Scarborough that the Centrist way is the way to collapse, and that infrastructure, education and research should all become parts of a free market. But, no one can even comprehend how this is possible --if they can't imagine a centalized plan from DC, then it can't happen. Americans have to transcend the political realm, because in this realm lies our destruction.

Catholics rebel and MSM don't cover the story

http://michellemalkin.com/

Oh, I'm sure there's a mention here or there, but for the most part, the MSM are busy covering Romney singing America the Beautiful and Obama channeling Al Green. Our political realm is now in competiton with X Factor. I prefer X Factor.

This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg -- there will be more challenges to government over-reach going foward, more than at any time in our history, most likely.

As more Americans have been shocked into paying attention by a government that has brought the economy to a practiacl standstill, they'll see just how much power the federal government has grabbed from the private sector in order to build a powerful State which now controls what it wants to control.

Enough is enough -- that's what Americans will say, and it doesn't matter if Republicans or Democrats are in power -- this has to do with the private sector against the State, thus, against the interventionist, statist government which creates unlimited State power. We might even begin withdrawing consent to be governed by this system.

When I have to go to Michelle Malkin to get the latest on this story -- and I'm not knocking Malkin -- it shows that Old Media are only parts of the State machine that needs dismantling.

Hey, Romney -- are you paying attention?

Doug French on Education

Doug French has written a good article on conventional education and our failed educational system. I agree that public education has become a bubble that has to burst soon, yet our out of touch President wants to pour more billions into education as if it will change anything except strengthen the ties between the teachers' unions and Democrats.

I've said for years that education should be an issue for the private sector where innovation can work to turn the tide of harm done to the young through public education.