political apparatus keeps the US in the 19th century on (now very) obvious national needs
Sad indictment of our informing institutions that anyone that's outgrown pimples would make such a magnificently stupid statement.
Needs and wants need be earned, not granted by the kinds of filth that promise they can make things better.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century most of the population lived on a couple dollars a day, if that. In 1914 Henry Ford more than doubled the usual to $5 a day to keep his lines operating efficiently. In '57 I stumbled in to a high school summer job paying $1.875 an hour, or $15 a day. At the time there were a lot of men raising families on less.
Average wages measured in "stuff", or stuff's proxy, dollars, are now generally much higher, despite a government forever plundering and impeding developments in the structures of production (in abuse of their subject's confidence). That in lieu of their legitimate function of protecting private property, enforcing contract, and adjudicating torts to grease the skids toward a wealthier society
The dollar terms involved in that trajectory were a proxy for refinements and additions to the way our society utilized scarce resources that had alternative uses to deliver an expanding basket of goodies previously unimaginable to a vastly expanded population. Those goodies, made of the same raw stuff available to the Neanderthals, didn't come in to existence because unprincipled hustlers stole here and gave there.
The origins of our opulence are obscure to too many. Now the assholes in charge have sold the idea they can give better health care than a free nation could achieve better if left alone. It's uneven, but the decline in available medical care is already becoming apparent and the associated damage to other interconnected parts of the economy are destroying prospects for an expanding pool of the young.
Statism has a perfect record of failure, yet many still fall for the phony promise. Why do you? |
