Utopia

The Left in this country has a plan. The plan is to create Utopia here on Planet Earth. However, this is Utopia for them and Hell for the rest of us.

Liberals envision planned communities where people live in "sustainable" housing, ride bikes or walk to work, and use public transportation to get from point A to point B. The love the idea of planned communities where everyone lives, works, shops, and recreates in the same location. Exactly how will this be achieved?

First of all, take a look at the current planned communities out there. Everyone one of them, except for Greenbelt, Maryland, which was conceived by President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, caters to the upper middle class exclusively. Go to King Farm or Kentlands in Montgomery County, Maryland sometime. All the residential units start in the $600,000 range and go up. You are not going to see any working class or lower middle class "undesirables" polluting their Utopia. Yes, it's OK for them to work there serving their masters, but at the end of the day they will need to return to the "slave quarters," which will be planned communities that are a nice safe distance from Utopia. Here they will live in crowded tenement style housing, shop in stores that will sell only the food and other goods approved by the Mandarin classes residing in Utopia, and then ride the bus to their job serving the masters on the "plantation."

The question that arises, however is such: Just how many "slaves" are necessary to to provide services to the upper middle class "masters," and at what point do the rest of them become a costly liability? At what point do the lesser human beings no longer become "sustainable?"

Do you thing that maybe including mandatory body mass measurement requirements and information about drinking and smoking in electronic medical records, information that is going to be used to ration medical care, is not a tool to help "cull the herd" of "little people" that are going to be the slaves on the Utopia plantation?

We are living in dangerous times. The Eugenics movement of the last century, coupled with the Progressive movement and America's march to Marxist Fascism seems to be running full steam ahead. More to follow...

Streamline the government

Daniel Mitchell of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, has published an article on the Cato Institute website that states that too little government is just as bad as too much government. Basically, things should fall according to a Laffer Curve, but the midpoint where things are most efficient is at a 17.5% GDP. The last time this occured was in 1965. Right now the cost of government is running about 40% of the GDP and growing larger. There are some that predict that if we don't stop the growth of government, we will be looking at the cost of government to exceed 60% GDP by the end of 2010 and 90% by the 2012 election. We have to reverse course. If we don't, we will end up with economic collapse. This will lead to a world-wide economic collapse, followed by mass famines, mass violence, and possibly a nuclear World War III. What would be left after that is anyone's guess.

Let's face it, the size of government in the United States has grown into leviathan proportions. We can not sustain it. I agree with Mitchell. Yes, we need government, but we need smart, unbloated, efficient government. I will add to this and write subsequent articles for this blog on how I would fix the government problem in this county over the next several articles. Stay tuned.