Of course I mean “free”.
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Everyone likes free things. Because of human nature. Because bah.
“My favorite is free stuff. I’m willing to do anything.”
— Cindy Margolis
“I will do anything for free things.”
-Sandra Bullock
The contrast between freedom and non-freedom inspires human thoughts-because there are humans and thoughts.
“The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.”
-Coco Chanel
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you a yacht large enough to park next to it.”
— David Lee Rose
But almost nothing in life is free. We almost always really mean free for us. We want it-we just don’t want to pay for it ourselves. Because of human nature. Because of mathematics. Because bah. Apart from….
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
— Milton Friedman
“Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. Every profit in one thing is paid in another.”
— Ted Hughes
Of course, since there was a government, it has known and exploited our fascination with “free” things. Some of us have been warning others of us for a long time. Not that most of us are listening.
“Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until voters discover that they can vote for themselves generously from public wealth. From that moment on, most people always vote for promising to get the most out of public finances. Candidates of interest, as a result, democracy always collapses due to loose fiscal policies, and it is always accompanied by dictatorship…”
— Alexander Fraser Taitler
“(Me) If you like Washington, which offers free things…that’s what you got.”
— Nina Easton
We are all here-in the United States in 2021.
The largest provider of “free” items in human history is the US federal government. In 2022, President Joe Biden and his comrades in Washington proposed a budget of 6.011 trillion U.S. dollars. Fill the budget with “free” stuff.This is a huge pile 4.829 trillion US dollars Budget for 2021.
Two years-nearly 11 trillion U.S. dollars.
But for DC, even this is not enough “free” things.The Democrats currently recommend that we spend US$5.4 trillion Two other explosions of “free” content masquerading as “infrastructure.”
Is DC good at doing anything they do “for free”? of course not.
The New Deal made the Great Depression worse.Let’s not repeat the same mistakes
Oops……
We lost the war against poverty: Why welfare makes the poor poor
Oops.
What has the failure of government “free” things brought us in the past 100 years?
Our national debt is moving towards $30 trillion. And this is just the tip of the iceberg…
Behind the CBO’s 30-year forecast of a deficit of 100 trillion US dollars
We are all Titanic now.
As of last year, DC has accumulatively spent $22 trillion About the fight against poverty. Circulated for nearly sixty years.
DC proposed that we spend nearly $16.5 trillion in Biden’s first two years.
Because more of us vote for “free” things than ever before.
As we get closer and closer to the inevitable collapse, we slide down the blade of history faster and faster.
“A great civilization can only be conquered from the outside if it destroys itself from the inside.”
-Ariel Durant
What is the best way to destroy yourself from the inside? It is the kind of socialism that we have been involved in for a long time-even as I type, we are accelerating.
Socialism is the redistribution of “free” things:
“In Marxist theory, a social stage between capitalism and communism is characterized by unequal distribution of commodities and distribution according to work.”
in other words? Others spend money to buy things-you get it. “Uneven distribution of goods” means “free” things.
in other words?
“Everyone does their best and distributes according to their needs.”
– Karl Marx
We have been here before. Again and again, again and again. For many, many millennia.
How imperial socialism destroyed the Roman Empire
Reasons for the failure of socialism: the Soviet Union
I can assure you with absolute moral conviction: this time there will be no difference in this country.
The government can’t do anything well. The government did a terrible job in almost everything.
But like an upside-down gambling addict, the worse the DC, the bigger they will subsequently become.
Spend two years destroying society in the name of the Chinese virus? Twenty years of failure in Afghanistan? It took nearly a century to watch your “free” thing socialism fail?
Scale up: Expenditure of 16.6 trillion US dollars within two years.
Of course, it contains a lot of absurd “free” things universalism. With wit:
Biden promises to provide broadband for everyone:
“The President’s plan calls for an investment of $100 billion over eight years to ensure that every American has access to broadband.”
In addition to the private sector Already done:
(A) According to the Federal Communications Commission, 99.99% of the U.S. population has access to one or more Internet service providers that provide cable, DSL, fiber, fixed wireless, satellite, or other types of 4 Mbps or higher Internet service. “
We do not need the government to “ensure that every American has broadband access.” Because every American has done this.
This is the perfect combination of the failure of socialism and the success of capitalism.
The government promises to do something the private sector can do better. This is especially true in this case—because the private sector has already done so.
But none of this seems important.
The government is now instinctively inclined to propose the greatest degree of “free” socialism.
Because too many of us have been voting for it. Decades.
We are Rome. And Russia. And Cuba. And Venezuela. with….
