The Beginning of the End

So many stories today... but one must be chosen, and the winner will be a continuation on a theme I am, perhaps morbidly, interested in pursuing.

It has long been my assertion that ideologies which are untrue, that fly in the face of reality, only work at best for a short time, and then proceed to destroy themselves. That is to say, false worldviews are inherently nihilistic. The massive numbers of deaths in any communist regime would be an extreme example, the current cultural annihilation of post-Christian, socialist Europe in the face of Islam would be another.

One thinks of Kipling's poem, "The Gods of the copybook headings".
For those of you unfamiliar with it, I highly recommend it.

Now for one of the most recent examples:
GM will be shutting most of its US plants for 9 months this summer.

"General Motors Corp. is planning to temporarily close most of its U.S. factories for up to nine weeks this summer because of slumping sales and growing inventories of unsold vehicles, three people briefed on the plan said Wednesday. Analysts say the company could be seeing sales decline because of talk about a potential bankruptcy."

Wait, I thought the magical bailouts were supposed to prevent this.
Or perhaps throwing tax dollars onto an economic bonfire is not the best way to extinguish it?

Can you hear the sand in the hourglass?

We have elected those who despise earned wealth, and those who have earned it, and believe that money is theirs to make, claim, and redistribute at will. They do not understand how a nation's wealth is founded, nor do they overly care. They will simply redistribute (holding some back for themselves, of course) wealth until all wealth is gone, all the while blaming producers for failing to produce enough for everyone to share. (and the misguided populace will then attack the producers. Witness the anti-capitalist demonstrations at the G20 conference.)

Obama and his backers are leading the charge of those who wish to saw through the branches upon which they sit, on the grounds that no tree should be taller than any others.


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