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Thursdays
with John Hayward
Government is force
06.30.11
England
is dealing with a massive
public union strike today, “the first in what unions say will be a wave
of
action against steps by the British government that will cut the value
of
public sector pensions,” according to a Reuters report.
Thousands of strikers have clogged busy
intersections, while 85 percent of British schools will be fully or
partially
shut down.
The
same thing is happening in Greece,
but with more exciting riots. The
Greek
parliament sought to battle the absolute and total financial meltdown
of their
government with crucial austerity measures yesterday.
The UK Daily Mail tells us the result was
bloody street battles between police and “demonstrators who were armed
with
petrol bombs, bricks, and sticks.”
A
Member of Parliament who had promised to vote against the austerity
package,
but changed his mind and voted for it, was pelted with stones.
What
you see happening in England and
Greece today is the inevitable future of Obama-style economics. There is no escape from
this destiny. It’s
only a matter of time.
Government
is force. It has
only the money it takes by force.
It enforces its will through the threat of
punishment. Every
government, from the
smallest libertarian ideal to the bloated monstrosities dying in the
streets of
London and Athens, is nothing but an accumulation of compulsive force.
What
happens when a large number of
people depend upon the government for their livelihood, through public
employment and welfare? The
government
must naturally grow larger to provide for these people.
It must seize more funding from the private
sector to pay the salaries and benefits of public employees, and
finance
welfare for the dependency class.
It must
hire more people to administer these vast new funds… and their salaries
must be
paid.
Every
government is either the ally,
or the enemy, of law-abiding private citizens.
The sole factor controlling that relationship
is the size of the
State. A large
government will always
become the enemy of its people, because those who depend on the
government will
eventually, and inevitably, insist upon it.
—
John Hayward
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