The Problem With Planning

Liberal saws like Hodes and Shea-Porter, Shaheen and the rest, believe deep down inside that the answer to any perceived problem must involve government.   Their policies, their votes, all make it clear that they trust the government more than they trust you.  Why else divert your earnings to government directed purposes, even ones to which you object?  Why else proceed with legislation to control massive sectors of the economy and the way it generates wealth, unless you were committed to some idea of social justice.

Social justice, which is the polite term for socialism, can only be achieved though economic planning.  Economic planning is the systematic process of converting production for profit to production for use.  And it is achieved though the Marxist doctrine of "concentration of industry."

Socialism seeks control of the means of production though state ownership.  But the government does not have to own everything to achieve its ends it simply needs to control it. (fascism)  Mr. Obama appears interested in a hybrid of both and echoes such sentiments when he tells us he does not want to run car companies, yet buys up enough of a controlling interest in them anyway.

We are to beleive that saving a failed business model (GM and Chrysler), while conveniently protecting union supporters, at the expense of billions of taxpayer dollars (when plenty of successful alternatives are readily available, not just to supply cars, but to absorb jobs and equipment) is executed to save the economy.  It is not.  It's only purpose is concentration of industry. 

The Administration made a similar move on the banks with taxpayer bail outs, and then with wage and profit control measures.  That has not gone entirely as planned as banks try to pay back the loans and get away from the regulators; but some of the largest banks are willing enough to play along if they get preferential treatment and the rules wipe out competition. 

Despite that the Obamacrats did not give up on controlling the financial industry (even with 'sweeping' regulatory control).  On Christmas Eve the government gave itself a different financial giant to control.  Ones it had been raising from a puppy.  It gave its mortgage arm Freddie and Frannie unlimited access to the taxpayers pockets making them fully owned by the federal government.   And with 9 out of 10 mortgages under its control (as a result of decades of effort and market manipulation) it now controls the mortgage market, with the means to move into commercial property or any other money making aspect of banking, like say....insurance.

Health care is another "concentration of Industry" effort.  It is predicated on a fabricated right (under the umbrella of socialistic justice) and engineered by central planners as providing competition in a market with ample providers who for years have been shackled by state and federal regulators--to this obvious purpose.  The government makes the problem, then offers to solve it, in this case by assuming control of the 'means of production."  The conquest is so important, that problems with the takeover are to be ignored so long as the industry can be brought under the government wing.  As with the mortgage industry, time and tinkering will complete the process of concentration of industry whereby a few powerful players with the government make all the decisions and distribute whatever resources are produced as they see fit.  In this particular case the resource is health care, with the tangential benefit of allowing it to also control you.

Cap and trade is no different.  Controlling the energy sector is the final and perhaps biggest piece.  Everything in our lives, not just production and wealth creation, requires energy. Legislation giving the central planners control over it, allows them to control and regulate everything.   And not even evidence that suggests their motives are suspect will stop them from trying.   Central planning prohibits debate.  The consensus is not the science it is the social justice that they seek from it.

That is the wolf of change we have been promised in sheeps clothing and it is the change they endeavor to deliver, at any price.  Because to central planners no price is to high.  They would give up their power, their office, their incomes, so that a future generation of central planners would look back on their martyred lives and rejoice at the framework they had been left.  A framework built on the backs of taxpayers for generations to come.

Obama and the democrats seek nothing more than to dominate the means of production to deny you the ability to be anything more than they will allow you to be.  They will deny it, but the facts of the past 11 months are before us.  The seeds long ago planted are ready for harvest.  This is the last chance they may ever have.  And they must be stopped at all cost.