I’ve read that early in the 20th Century the administrator of the US Patent Office noticed a a few months had gone by in which nobody had applied for a new patent on an invention. So he wrote a letter to the President, telling him that the US Patent Office should be closed, because everything that could be invented, had already been invented… :entertained:
So where are all the recipients of public services and entitlements? They are not on the bottom working for the rest. Are they the first level at the “we eat for you?” Those look like the rich or capitalist robber barons and bosses. This image misses a large part of the population. We do take care of the poor and disabled. Maybe not as well as they would like, but it is something that has changed since 1911 and it is what might bring the entire system down.
…The malignantly benign belief that the state exists to shelter its citizenry from all the vagaries of life has spread from Europe to the USA, Canada and Australia. Just about everywhere that it has been tried is now undergoing an apparently irreversible economic and social crisis, as states are torn in different directions by the contrasting interests of competing elites. Classically, there are the time-travelling banking-elites, the party-political elites, the untaxed billionaire mobile-elites, the public-service bureaucratic-elites, and the dole-addicted sloth-elites. These depend on a fictional wealth that has been created by time-travelling bankers who have been authorised by the party-political elites, supervised by the public-service bureaucratic elites, to journey to the future to loot the current accounts of our great grandchildren.
…In the US, the “middle-class” — once defined by a high work-ethic, a belief in the rewards of education, an ambition to own property, and a profound patriotism — is facing extinction, trapped between the colliding glaciers of falling property markets, higher taxation, deeper debt and a declining cultural self-belief.
…In Europe especially, politicians have repeatedly used the instruments of the welfare state to buy the votes of the electorates. Hence the absurd notion that 1.5 million people in this Republic can have medical cards, with free medical treatment, either placing the price of their entire health care on the other 1.5 million people working, or — in reality — on the unborn.
…Everywhere across the western world, the political classes have engaged in insane borrowing-competitions, to be repaid in the tomorrow-land that is Ovaria. This is multi-dimensional money-lending, based on ancient compound interest, modern obstetrics and a blind faith that contraception, abortions and vibrators will not result in a steep demographic decline. And so any possible cuts to health or education budgets are not discussed rationally but simply and abusively re-named by the antediluvian-left, as “Thatcherite”, “monetarist”, “Tory”, “reactionary”. Thus the toxic borrowing addition is reinforced, as those who try to talk economic or moral sense are rendered unelectable. The key individual in this ruinous financial order is not a bank manager or a hedge-fund investor, but the midwife…..
…The welfare state’s original safety net became an occasional hammock which became a permanent bed.
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I’ve read that early in the 20th Century the administrator of the US Patent Office noticed a a few months had gone by in which nobody had applied for a new patent on an invention. So he wrote a letter to the President, telling him that the US Patent Office should be closed, because everything that could be invented, had already been invented… :entertained:
not a lot.
ebbs and flows.
We keep fighting.
Fits and starts.
2 steps forward, 1 step back.
Those that say the speech…oratories.
CRAP-O-LA…………………..the outfits……. :entertained: ?
So where are all the recipients of public services and entitlements? They are not on the bottom working for the rest. Are they the first level at the “we eat for you?” Those look like the rich or capitalist robber barons and bosses. This image misses a large part of the population. We do take care of the poor and disabled. Maybe not as well as they would like, but it is something that has changed since 1911 and it is what might bring the entire system down.
From 100 Years Ago… What has changed?
…The malignantly benign belief that the state exists to shelter its citizenry from all the vagaries of life has spread from Europe to the USA, Canada and Australia. Just about everywhere that it has been tried is now undergoing an apparently irreversible economic and social crisis, as states are torn in different directions by the contrasting interests of competing elites. Classically, there are the time-travelling banking-elites, the party-political elites, the untaxed billionaire mobile-elites, the public-service bureaucratic-elites, and the dole-addicted sloth-elites. These depend on a fictional wealth that has been created by time-travelling bankers who have been authorised by the party-political elites, supervised by the public-service bureaucratic elites, to journey to the future to loot the current accounts of our great grandchildren.
…In the US, the “middle-class” — once defined by a high work-ethic, a belief in the rewards of education, an ambition to own property, and a profound patriotism — is facing extinction, trapped between the colliding glaciers of falling property markets, higher taxation, deeper debt and a declining cultural self-belief.
…In Europe especially, politicians have repeatedly used the instruments of the welfare state to buy the votes of the electorates. Hence the absurd notion that 1.5 million people in this Republic can have medical cards, with free medical treatment, either placing the price of their entire health care on the other 1.5 million people working, or — in reality — on the unborn.
…Everywhere across the western world, the political classes have engaged in insane borrowing-competitions, to be repaid in the tomorrow-land that is Ovaria. This is multi-dimensional money-lending, based on ancient compound interest, modern obstetrics and a blind faith that contraception, abortions and vibrators will not result in a steep demographic decline. And so any possible cuts to health or education budgets are not discussed rationally but simply and abusively re-named by the antediluvian-left, as “Thatcherite”, “monetarist”, “Tory”, “reactionary”. Thus the toxic borrowing addition is reinforced, as those who try to talk economic or moral sense are rendered unelectable. The key individual in this ruinous financial order is not a bank manager or a hedge-fund investor, but the midwife…..
…The welfare state’s original safety net became an occasional hammock which became a permanent bed.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/kevin-myers-welfare-state-mentality-is-a-fallopian-felony-2946099.html