The Futile Attempt of Forcing Equality Among the Masses.

Most of our world history can be boldly indexed according to failures in financial programs and policies. It seems that the Spanish, English, Germans, Italians, Argentineans and many others who had leaders that boasted of some modicum of education and/or we advised by ‘experts’ managed to find ways to trash their own societies in one way or another. Most of the time the government led financial systems packed up in a massive inflation caused by massive debt and defaults.

While many of the examples above derived from imperialism or fascism, the current thoughts on the Absolute Way to create and foster societies uses the same cognitive processes and propaganda, but shifts the emphasis to socialism or Marxism. There have been very few decent governments since 1900 in terms of providing a stable society, plenty of food and a stable currency. We have 190 countries now and most of them are failures headed by dictators, kings or worse.  While in previous times exploration, conquering, commerce and war were the main political driving forces of governments the current political focus in the United States is on the inexpressible notion of equality.

Here is my translation of the current leftist views on egalitarianism:

To realize equality using any metric that is available we first have to presuppose that each individual must be entitled or limited to some measurable quantity of this substance. The excuse frequently used is the zero sum rule,[1]which states, in part, that Africa is poor because the US has stolen their futures and such.  Such thinking is farcical. The most facile first topic to address is always money and its distribution among the masses so the socialists like Bernard Shaw [Shavianism][2] had hoped for forced equality using government policies where they would accept and implement his Fabianism.[3] He monotonously postulated that incomes should be equal. Shaw could not produce a scenario by which this might occur after repeated requests but he did praise the Bolsheviks for their attempts in this area. Of course, the Soviets distributed the loot from their plunder after murdering millions according to party membership thus providing a very good life for the top tier of the 4% of the Russian population who were party members and the rest were left with a much smaller portion or to starve.  Strangely, the leftist can celebrate and praise a flamboyant dictator like Castro who impoverishes their own country and produces poverty, war and famine as long as the money the dictator squanders was derived from the rich or from nationalizing corporate capital. This is a political mental affliction that has yet to be squared with reality. Those liberal Democrats would not like to live under such a system unless they had a guaranteed supply of narcotics at low cost.

If we choose health care as the metric then we must ask if people really do have equal access to such care in any modern state. The issue in the US is frequently confused by equating medical insurance with medical care. Cuba[4] boasts of a low-cost medical system that operates so that “annual health care spending [in Cuba ed.] averages just $230 a person compared with $6,096 in the United States,” a statement [from the NYT]that defies a rational financial conclusion given that a simple blood test costs $400 in the US and cannot be  less [if not subsidized] in Cuba.  That means that a few tests and some minor surgery wipe out the reserve for several dozen people in this phony place where they have ‘free” health care. There is no money in Cuba for even a lousy medical system unless you think rattles, drums and political chants are good medicine. This coverage level is a lie, of course, as the arithmetic demonstrates but lies are important to the left.  The left thrives on lies and the Grand Lie is that we can have ‘equality’ in our time. Canada and England have long waiting lists for operations such as hip replacements in their medical system. This is rationing. A proper medical system rations care? We do not in the US. Cuba rations food. This is equality?

If we choose housing as a metric and specify the number of square feet for each person then we cannot find a place where such equality is in force. Our attempts at high-rise apartments for the poor resulted in disasters like the Cabrini Green project[5] and most of these were imploded and dismissed as failures.

If we choose jobs as a topic and think about equality then we see a wide range of affirmative action programs, quotas, union stonewalling and featherbedding, set-asides, corruption and more that by the very definition force inequality upon the workers. These programs do not provide equality in any way and must rely on racism, politics, unionism and bias against those with the proper work skills to squeeze in persons with lesser skills. The governments have decided to force employers to hire people with lesser skills and employ them on some kind of ‘equality’ footing whereby they cannot perform with those higher up on the scale for obvious reasons. IQ tests are outlawed for hiring because they seem to act disparately against certain minorities and that is the direct result of cognitive skill sorting. What should an IQ test measure if not IQ? IQ differentials are unfair we are told.

Cognitive equality is an oxymoron. There is no way you can give standardized tests and ensure that everybody gets the average test grade with nobody getting a higher or a lower test result. The much maligned Bell Curve[6], sometimes accused of actually causing the ‘problem’ of cognitive distribution in the US, actually states the blunt facts about our societies and the distribution of mental skills. This salient fact that half the people who take the standardized test will score below the median is the rallying point for ‘change’ in ‘education.’[7] That is not fair. Society must be equalized.[8] Thus propaganda must replace education. The Bell Curve correctly predicts who will pass high school, college and who will excel in the work place—and who will not—on a group basis. This fact commits millions to menial jobs but is casus belli for the political left.

Our government decided that ‘affordable housing’ was some obvious social mandate and passed the CRA [Community Reinvestment Act][9][10] that has now created mountains of bad debt[11] by forcing banks to give away free houses to the uncreditworthy low class in exchange for their votes under penalty of prosecution by the government. We now have several trillion dollars in worthless mortgages that are forcing bank failures. The scam here was that banks were forced to loan money to people with poor credit, scant educational skills, drug addicts and even illegal aliens and could peddle this worthless paper into the government financial dumpsters known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These two phony big-lie federal quasi-government corporations racked up 3-5 trillion dollars in debt [we don’t know how much yet and it must much larger than that] and started off a steep recession that will probably turn into a depression.[12] We cannot sustain such a high debt and it is quickly doubling during the Obama administration.

We can safely state that this phony government “affordable housing” program is not exactly working according to any known leftist theory of equality. The ‘poor’ cannot pay for their mortgages as predicted[13] so the system is unfair. This observation brings up the broad-spectrum question about any known history of leveling of factors that brought about some form of equality. The closest I can find is the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. [14] This is probably the left’s best effort to achieve equality as they simply suffocated anybody they found who could read or had soft hands.  That is one method that can square off a bell curve—just eliminate the upper half and tail. After a fully rereading of some books like Animal Farm, 1984 and reviewing the Cambodian Splendor, it is clear that people like Castro, Ortega, Chavez, Morales[15] and Kim in North Korea are simply pigs. They deal in poverty, murder and sleaze. They are the exact converse of equality.  The mumblings of Evo Morales who now identifies himself as “Marxist-Leninist” brings the promise of land reform. What a joke. Lenin promised land reform and several million Kulaks [known as Dekulakization^[16]]  died trying to get in on the deal.[17] Food was the issue in the Ukraine and the Soviet solution was Holodomor (Ukrainian: ????????? translation: death by starvation).^[18] The left can seemingly stand up and offer to support the ‘poor’ even thought they preach from atop a pile of 100,000,000 dead bodies.

The government thus assumes that if a market [stocks, houses, etc.] goes up then this is fine as taxes can be raised and money spread around to ‘aid’ the lower classes and pad the salaries of the politicians and their friends. If the market, like housing, goes down and wealth is lost then the government, leaning on the taxpayer as always, must make up the difference with taxes and social programs.  Unemployment and lost tax revenues must be replaced by higher taxes on the upper income levels. This effect generates a spiral whereby more jobs and lost and taxes must be raised, which ensures that tax revenues will decrease. The strange notion here is that jobs and wealth cannot be lost and the government must intervene to reverse such a situation. If the economy sinks and the GDP falls then the government must provide money for jobs and things to pull the GDP back up even though when they raise taxes they thus ruin new job formation. High corporate taxes force businesses to lay off workers. The government seems to believe that the government is the employer of last resort and lately the lender of first and last resort. This would, of course, call for more taxes and so on and so forth. This cycle never ends. To pay for all this socialism the government now prints money which will soon result in massive inflation—an outcome that does not help the poor.

Equality does not exist in our various societies and the quest for such is not a moral or a social endeavor—it is an excuse to dominate the situation with power given to the politicians who will become famous and stuff their pockets with money. Only a fool can read history and look at the thousands of social programs that have failed and conclude that this is a viable option. Every time the far left get their way with government accounts the system crashes and, for a while, the citizens are somewhat ‘equal.’ What these people want is power and the power is derived from other people’s money. They will squander that wealth while pretending to help the poor. They always have.

Our current government is on a wild spending spree and fantasizing about green products, electric cars and other fanciful dreams that are derived from smoking crack or other leftist pastimes. California [or what I call the California Disease][19]  is the test case as they will probably get to the very limit of ‘equality’ as soon as they go bankrupt and unemployment soars in the Golden State. The Gold will surely turn to rust. New York State and New Jersey, all controlled by left liberals will soon follow. Ever notice that the top 10 cities famous for high murder rates are run by 9 Democrats and 1 liberal Republican? The leftists sure know how to run major cities equitably as the propensity to get murdered is similar in these cities. [20]

Something to think about:

"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." -- Margaret Thatcher.[21]

Our government is fast running out of our money and now will print some new money to achieve equality.  Are we to go bankrupt over an impossible social experiment? The answer to this is yes from the far left. What ever it takes!

rycK

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