War-Losing Faction

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Note that when the usual suspects decry our prisoners and our homeless, the usual suspects have no program to offer that isn't packed full of socialism, a highly inefficient, bureaucratic, and expensive form of sociopolitical order. This is why we reject these programs. The socialists, delusional in their sense of entitlement and of humane benevolence -- but organized poverty of whatever degree is neither benevolent nor in itself entitling -- then take opportunity to complain of meanness of spirit on the part of those who know an economic order takes one of two choices: either create wealth or organize scarcity. There are no socialist economies not to one degree or another plagued with scarcity. The capitalist ones tend to fix scarcities by the natural, human law of supply and demand: if there's a demand, somebody is going to make a living in its supply. Pleas for additional socialism do not move the capitalist zeitgeist. What's more, they amount to an unscrupulous scam by persons out to write themselves into positions as bureaucrats -- not part of the production, but part of the overhead.

When, moved by socialist impulses, a government starts voting a portion of the treasury to pay out dollars to people who've done nothing to earn dollars, what is created is not social betterment (allegedly what is desired, yet the record shows this simply never occurs) but instead a market for idleness -- and the market for idleness is wholly artificial. For an example of this in full cry, take a long look at downtown Amsterdam -- in the mid Eighties, the place was full of shabby hippies, mainly doing nothing at all. You could smell the spiritual miasma of this rolling in through the tour bus windows. I don't know if it's been cleaned up since, but I declare, that place was a spiritual energy sink.

Shut down the market for idleness and the people will enter the market of that which creates wealth. Then everybody lives better.