Friday, June 22, 2012

What's the difference?

This, dear reader, is merely another segment in my current 'let's get rid of government' series. For those of you who may not be interested, feel free to skip it, and continue floating along on your ship of accepted paradigms.

What is the difference between our government in the good old USA, and the government of any communist country? NONE!!!

Let us look a little more closely, shall we?

The vast majority of food (you know...the stuff we eat) is produced on huge farms, subsidized by the federal government, and administered by the fourth arm of the federal government, Monsanto. While you may believe that there are no food shortages, you need to look more closely. There is clearly a shortage of beef, as the average price of flank steak (once considered the pauper's cut) is approaching $12 per pound. As I have seen no decline in national barbecues, I must surmise that demand has remained stable, but supply has decreased. Similar examples might be cited for pork, chicken and broccoli, not to mention fiddlehead ferns. Food lines are avoided by the use of government stipends to the needy, thereby blurring the obvious conclusion: That food production here is no different than food production in Russia or Cuba.

Both the governments of the USA and Russia spent trillions and trillions of dollars fighting losing battles in Afghanistan. NO difference noted.

In the area of state-run mass production, there are similar conclusions to be drawn. While in the former Soviet Union all industry fell under the rule of national government, at this point in time, the US government has only subsidized the automotive, drug and banking industries. The difference? In the US, the feds don't fund their own mafia (at least not overtly).

OK, so as you can see, we are essentially a communist country. You might wish to contend that this is the land of the free. Try seceding from the union, and see how free you are. Try not paying your taxes. No, dear reader, there is nothing free in America.

Between the presidential election of 2008, and the midterm elections of 2010, campaign spending at the federal level reached approximately $9 billion, or $30,000 per American. As this is nearly double my current annual income, I am forming a PAC to fund my campaign for survival.

I could go about medical care, or unionization, or any other segment of societal structure, but the results would be the same. We are simply speeding by the writing on the wall, blind to the allegory in the cave that is out national persona. Time to find a better way.