Printing money and handing it out to the masses is only a prescription for rapid price inflation.
I hope Jesse Kelly is right:
Any politician who objects to the current massive shutdown of the economy should speak out now loudly and clearly, so you don't get caught in the crossfire and get booted out of office.
-RW
I suspect that the politicians getting "booted out of office" is the least of our problems. If people aren't able to afford or get what they need, society will degrade very, very rapidly. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
ReplyDeleteThree observations.
ReplyDeleteFirst, the vast majority of Americans have now shown themselves to be invertebrates. Nary a wimper about house imprisonment ("shelter-in-place") and business shutdowns; it's almost the opposite, people seem to be begging for more. Pardon my rudeness if I burst out laughing next time someone stands for the national anthem and pounds out "O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
Second, bravo to those who stocked up on firearms and ammunition. If we have to live within a broad economic collapse, then self-defense will become a priority.
Third, go preppers! This is your time in the sun, to laugh back at those who have always ridiculed you.
You're right, I believe.
DeleteI wish I could say I was a prepper, or had tens of thousands of rounds of ammo. I've tried to do what I can, but I'm sure it's not enough.
That said, and my wife hates it when I say this, but the United States has been full of "pussies" for a long time.
By that I mean people who would rather fellate law enforcement as their "heroes" instead of standing up for their own freedoms and learning how to take care of themselves and their loved ones.
Pretty disgusting what this country has turned into.
As a libertarian, I'm already pissed off about all of the oppressive measures being put in place by the governments around the world.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if the mortality figures from this disease come in below those of the common flu, I think that there might be an opportunity for libertarians to convince the average person to also be very, very pissed off too.
I'm more pessimistic. Anti-Trumpers will probably just conclude that the wrong person was in power, and pro-Trumpers will probably just conclude that things would have been much worse but for the actions taken. And the same thing for the state and local governments: if it's not your guy or gal cracking the skulls, then BAD, and if it is your guy or gal, then YAY.
DeleteUnfortunately very few of my friends are listening when I bring up the violations of the constitution that are occurring under these shelter-in-place mandates, as well as the ongoing and upcoming economic damage from the mandates and the planned major spending and money printing. Oddly enough, many of the same people cheering on local and state-level shelter-in-place mandates are the same ones who complained about the civil liberties lost during the post-9/11 frenzy. Never mind the fact that this virus first spread in an authoritarian country, and yet all of that authoritarianism couldn't stop it from spreading outside its borders. What makes our central planners and bureaucrats any better than theirs? We also need to look at Japan. Japan has a lot of similarities to Italy (large elderly population, a large number of people living in dense quarters), but Japan seems to have a much better grip on controlling the coronavirus spread, and Japan isn't resorting to the types of shelter-in-place mandates that California and other states have pursued.
DeleteUnfortunately they will learn the hard way that the powers government gains in a crisis never fully recedes when the crisis ends. They will learn the hard way that government is to never be trusted, and that the-powers-that-be will always follow Rahm Emanuel's advice of never wasting crises.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03/bill-sardi/the-coronavirus-is-not-causing-deaths-weak-immune-systems-are/
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