Subj : Re: Recession to Depressi
To   : Kaelon
From : Dr. What
Date : Thu Jul 21 2022 08:40:00

-=> Kaelon wrote to Dr. What <=-

 Ka> Completely agree. Also consider the limited areas where a national
 Ka> government should legitimately function - such as defense,
 Ka> infrastructure, conducting an equitable and non-entangling foreign
 Ka> policy - and we quickly see where our vast Federal Institutions have
 Ka> failed our people.  I forget where I read this, but aren't something
 Ka> like a third of all bridges and roads in the United States on the verge
 Ka> of collapse?  What a disgrace.

Road funding is interesting.  Speaking about the Interstate road system:
+ Taxes are collected locally.
+ Sent to the Federal Gov't.
+ Who then doles it back out to the states to "maintain the Interstate" in
their own states.

But (like here in Michigan) the governors use that money to fund social
programs instead.  And the unions suck a great deal of that money up as well to
"fix" the roads.

 Ka> Libertarianism has a long way to go to educate people about the
 Ka> personal responsibility necessary to cultivate a truly civic-minded
 Ka> society.

That's really the job of the public education system.  But the Elites have
destroyed that.

 Ka> You and I both.  I don't have especially high hopes for any other
 Ka> Anglo-Saxon or Nordic Country, considering the entire Commonwealth has
 Ka> veered towards socialist principles and even the most promising
 Ka> candidate-countries - like Australia - are positively leftist and
 Ka> bloated in comparison to what I would expect of a true capitalist
 Ka> system.

Surprisingly, it seems that the USSR is poised to be the economic powerhouse of
the future.

 Ka> That said, I fear that the United States' socioeconomic decline and
 Ka> impending political collapse will not, conversely, equate to a real
 Ka> geopolitical decline in our standing in the world.  After all, the
 Ka> United States has the most enviable position on the planet -
 Ka> geographically capable of dominating both the Atlantic and Pacific
 Ka> Oceans, dictating the circumstances of global trade unlike any other
 Ka> country, and topographically capable of harvesting vast natural
 Ka> resources to achieve its organizational aims.

I believe that matters less when many countries have missiles that can hit
anywhere on the planet.  And to be militarily dominant, you need a well-equiped
military.  But to get that, you have to have an economic engine capable of
doing that.

Remember: The USSR fell mainly because we caused them to over spend militarily.

 Ka> What our next
 Ka> global order will be, however, terrifies me, and I can only pray we
 Ka> will long be gone before we have to live through it (or under it).

I hear you on that.

I hope that we can stomp out this mess that the Ignorant Elitists have created
in the next few years.


.... I have but three enemies: fear, anger, ignorance.
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