REBUTTAL BY
More than 1,000 years before American founders such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (the primary authors of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, respectively) set forth their vision for limiting the size and scope of government, the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu had essentially said the same thing.
On the matter of good government, the founder of the doctrine known as Taoism stated:
“As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied in the Empire, the people grow poorer and poorer. When the people are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion. … The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. Therefore the Sage says: “So long as I do nothing, the people will work out their own reformation. So long as I love calm, the people will right themselves. If only I keep from meddling, the people will grow rich. If only I am free from desire, the people will come naturally back to simplicity.If the government is sluggish and tolerant, the people will be honest and free from guile. If the government is prying and meddling, there will be constant infraction of the law. If the government corrupt? Then uprightness becomes rare, and goodness becomes strange. Verily, mankind have been under delusion for many a day!Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish (lightly).”Tell it master, tell it!1. Lao Tzu: “When the people are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.” // 2. Jefferson: “That government which governs least, governs best. // 3. Madison: “Power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lao_tzu_130856Messrs. Jefferson, Madison and Tzu would no doubt agree that the intractable economic difficulties still afflicting so many millions of Americans are mainly the result of too much government intervention — coming in the related forms of excessive taxation, excessive debt, excessive regulation, and excessive Fed Bank-caused inflation. But be not troubled. Loony Lizzie Warren, the severely libtarded Senatorette from the state of Taxachussets by way of Harvard University by way of the Cherokee Tribe, has got a creative and original plan for economic revitalization — one that’s never been tried before (rolling eyes sarcastically). From the article:“Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on Tuesday proposed an economic program of ‘aggressive intervention’ on behalf of American workers,” suggesting that as president she would invest $2 trillion in climate-friendly industries over a decade, create a new cabinet-level Department of Economic Development and even manipulate the dollar to promote exports.” More “aggressive intervention.” Yeah, that’ll do it. Now why didn’t I think of that? Seriously now can “youse guys” believe this nasty, demented, pee-brained Marxist douche-bag actually taught at “elite” Harvard for $300,000 a year? — Come to think of it, outside of subjects like the applied sciences and engineering, such lunacy is quite standard for Harvard. 1. Quotes by Marx: “Dictatorship of the proletariat!” — “A heavy progressive or graduated income tax” — “Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state” — Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly” // 2. Lenin: “All power to the Soviets!” // Loony Lizzy: “My Green Manufacturing Plan is the first example of economic patriotism in action, and part of how I’ll implement my commitment to a Green New Deal. With big and bold investments in American research, American industry, and American workers, we can lead the global effort to combat climate change.” Has this deranged and oh-so “educated” Ivy League ass-clown not studied history, economics and philosophy? Evidently not! Loony Lizzie’s euthanasia prescription for the American economy calls to mind an excellent metaphor once made by Robert Welch (1900-1985) — the founder of the 90% truth organization known as The John Birch Society (good people, but they’ll bounce out any member who dares to so much as even whisper the “J Word”). Welch on big government:“A government trying to step in and improve the workings of a free market is exactly like a man who takes a lighted lantern outdoors at noon of a bright June day to show you the sun. But a government’s answer to any criticism as to the inadequacy of the lantern is always to bring more lanterns and then more lanterns — until eventually the smoke and glare of the lanterns so seriously interfere with and shut off the light of the sun that everybody actually has to work mainly by lantern light.
It is interesting to note, too, that in any society the government, and its allies who want to use the lanterns, always claim the justification that the society’s economy is more complex than those which have preceded it. They insist that therefore the lanterns of planning and control are necessary and helpful now, no matter how futile and harmful they have been shown to be in the past.”Tell it, Mr Welch. Tell it! 1. Robert Welch likened the folly of using government intervention to “cure” problems caused by government intervention in the first place to that of using smoky lanterns to improve the bad visibility caused by using smoky lanterns on a sunny day. // 3. Another great Jefferson quote. Boobus Americanus 1: I read in the New York Times today that Elizabeth Warren just announced her economic plan. She’s calling for aggressive intervention in the economy.
Boobus Americanus 2: She is a smart woman. The complexities of the modern economy require intelligent intervention and hands-on management.
*Editor: Exactly the opposite is true, Boobus. The infinite and unpredictable moving parts and players of the modern economy render it even less manageable by the egghead crowd from Harvard — most of whom have never even so much as run a childhood lemonade stand. Outside of things like international trade policies, general infrastructure projects and some basic safety / anti-fraud regulations, the best thing government can do for the economy is to leave us the heck alone!
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