The Governator Declares Fiscal Emergency
Originally published at Kyle Boddy dot com. You can comment here or there.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/01/MN4O14FD1N.DTL&tsp=1
“We are right now spending money we don’t have,” Schwarzenegger said. “The federal government shouldn’t give us a penny until we straighten out our mess and we can live within our means.”
LOL, good one, Arnold. Like that is going to happen.
I am deliberately trying to not post about how the economy sucks and how I think housing will see 2-4 years of decline before we hit the bottom because I’m actually focusing on things that I can meaningfully impact. It gets tiresome in pointing out how fucking obvious it is that interfering with the free market creates inefficiencies and how it’s unfair to everyone; additionally, it should be clear that it is stupid when the chosen few with incentive alignment X has the power to make decisions for the rest of the population with incentive alignment Y where X is nearly the inverse of Y.
The statists that read this blog cling to ideals like democracy (tyranny by the majority) and fairness (forcing people to believe in - and pay for - concepts they agree with), and it’s pretty unlikely they’ll ever change their thinking. After all, there was once a time where I believed in silly concepts like God and democracy, and I didn’t just “snap out of it.” Finding out that everything you believe in cannot be logically justified - no matter how much research you do - is really scary. I can’t blame people for not wanting to face reality.