Here's a convenient news snippet for exposing the logic of socialism:
"The scandal has also begun to impede state business, Madigan said.
Illinois has billions of dollars in unpaid bills, including payments to Medicaid patients, hospitals, pharmacies, nursing homes and schools, and the state has approved $1.4 billion in short-term borrowing to keep cash flowing. But before the borrowing takes effect, Madigan said she has to certify that there is not any legal proceeding threatening the ability of the governor to hold his office.
In light of Friday's filing by her office, Madigan said she can't sign that.
"We will not be able to move forward on it until we have a different governor," Comptroller Dan Hynes said.
The state's inability to pay the bills has "a horrible ripple effect," the comptroller said. He said that pharmacies that count on state reimbursements could shut down, and suppliers could stop delivering food to Illinois prisons or letting state troopers buy gasoline. Businesses waiting for the state to pay its bills could lay off workers or simply go bankrupt, Hynes said.
"If our backlog gets worse, people are going to stop providing services," he said."
The deeper you get into socialism, the more radical it's opposition has to become. We're teetering into a level so deep, it'll require nothing short of a bloody revolution to overturn. How many miles will we goose step down this road? What about the requisite community work mentioned in today's article on Mises? Do we sit and watch our sons and daughters go to work for the state? They're already warehoused 40 hrs a week at reeducation camps.
"The best way to bail out the economy is with liberty, not with federal reserve notes." - pairunoyd
"The vision of the Austrian must be greater than the blindness of the sheeple." - pairunoyd
Sorry. Here's a link to the full article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081213/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor
in a rational world you can't get away with a single lie. each lie has to be supported by other lies otherwise people will see that it is obviously false.
the latency of the free market (things like unemployment) created an opportunity for statists to step in and create a complex series of justifications for socialist programs. if you view socialism as an a priori good, then these justifications will seem reasonable to you. and once started, it is a self reinforcing idea. As power is taken away from people the entitlement programs become necessary. How can people pay for their own medical bills when they're being taxed? So the statists create subsidies for the medical industries, which help NOW but further inflate medical costs 10 years down the road. ad infinitum.
it is a slippery slope. once you get people used to the idea that the unproductive have an INHERENT right to leech off the productive, they will clamor for more blood until they bleed the economy dry.