What will we do when statism fails -- Part two

As far as the economy goes, one thing we will have to do is what we are doing now with the financial crisis -- STOP THE BLEEDING.

But once the bleeding is stopped we shouldn't do what politicians are braying about, which is akin to reopening the wound, that is -- more social engineering legislation and regulation.

Do we need regulation and oversight? Yes. But, we don't need social engineering. Private financial companies (all companies) need to return to rational business practices uninfluenced by government social engineers. A combination of good intentions gone awry and corruption has gotten us into the present financial mess. Social engineering has no place in the government of the future. We need a society of many associations -- SOMA -- not to be confused with Orwell.

Once the bleeding is stopped, government needs to be restructured and cleansed of all social engineering efforts and limited to protection of individual rights. Once government is limited to its original functions, regulation and oversight will be limited to preventing fraud -- the separation of government from social matters and economic matters, except as protectors to prevent fraud and coercion, will allow SOMA to determine its course based on the free will of people and the judgement of business -- if businesses make the wrong judgements, they fail, but they will not be influenced to make irrational judgments based on the whims of social engineers with government power.

In relation to the present dilemma brought on in large part by social engineers who wanted to expand home ownership for those without the means to pay for a home, and to redistribute wealth, with no government influence making this happen, people will have to find other ways to become home owners, ways that make more sense and don't put our financial institutions at risk.

But the main reason that statism will fail and a restructuring and limitation of government power will have to take place is that the world is changing and global pressures will reveal the antiquated incompetence of statism and its extravagant costs. We will need flexibility and quick decision-making mechanisms that only free associations will provide.

It may even come to de-centralizing government into regional centers of protection and court management, so that the slow, clumsy, corrupt power structure of Washington DC is broken up and rebuilt in more local responsive (and watched) centers.

By limiting government, separating its limited powers from the market, and making it more efficient and responsive, we will eliminate the wasteful money spent on lobbying, corporate welfare and save billions on failed social programs. SOMA will create private solutions to the evolution of a diverse society and no longer will we all be crammed in to one-size-fits-all government solutions. Social engineers cannot foresee the perfect society and force it to happen -- society will evolve through its free choices made every moment in a changing world where co-operation will demand freedom and non-interference.

If we continue using backward, socialist-tinted methods to engineer a society quickly changing in ways government does not undertand, the new brain-drain will be those who can work anywhere there is a computer connection leaving in droves to avoid the shackles of ignorance, and companies along with them -- to regions of the world who welcome the future of business. The US has the opportunity to continue being the leader in freedom and innovation, but a reactionary government, bent on controlling and engineering society to some misguided theory of equality, will cause this country to go backwards and slowly devolve into an out-of-touch cluster-fuck of bureacracy.

The way to improve the situations of millions of American citizens who are left behind is let the free market create the future and allow education to free itself from warring power groups to prepare people for all the jobs that will be created.

There are thousands of small and large problems that need to be resolved in order to turn around the failure of statism, but the first problem is a problem of perception. As long as more government regulation and control over the free market is seen as the salvation, no progress at all can be made. Yes, stop the bleeding -- but begin the revolution.

Comments

[Vance Shutes]

Mike,

>"Once the bleeding is stopped, government needs to be restructured and cleansed of all social engineering efforts and limited to protection of individual rights."

I love it!

[Mike Farmer]

Thanks, Vance.