Obama predicts end of world again today

Thousands of businesses will close, millions of people will lose their job. He says we don't have a month to find a better way. THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!!!

I'm tired of this -- how about a little Albert Jay Nock - writing about satifying needs and wants:

One is by work -- i.e., by applying labor and capital to natural resources for the production of wealth, or to facilitating the exchange of labor-products. This is called the economic means. The other is by robbery---i.e., the appropriation of the labor-products of others without compensation. This is called the political means. The State, considered functionally, may be described as the organization of the political means, enabling a comparatively small class of benficiaries to satisfy their needs and desires through various delegations of the taxing power, which have no vestige of support in natural right...

It is the primary instinct of human nature to satisfy one's needs and desires with the least possible exertion; everyone tends by instinctive preference to use the political means rather than the economic means, if he can do so...This instinct--and this alone--is what gives the State its almost impregnable strength. The moment one discerns this, one understands the almost universal disposition to glorify and magnify the State, and to insist upon the pretense that it is something which it is not --- something, in fact, the direct opposite of what it is. One understands the complacent acceptance of one set of standards for the State's conduct, and another for private organizations; of one set for officials, and another for private persons. One understands at once the attitude of the press, the Church and educational institutions, their careful inculcations of the specious patriotism, their nervous and vindictive proscriptions of opinion, doubt, or even of question. One sees why purely ficticious theories of the State and its activities are strongly, often fiercely and violently, insisted on; why the simple fundamentals of the very simple science of economics are shirked or veiled; and why, finally, those who really know what kind of thing they are promulgating, are loath to say so.