THINKING
OUTSIDE THE BOX
The Parasitic Left
Says
FEED
ME!
There will be no
bargain, young Jedi. I shall enjoy
watching you die.
Jabba the Hutt, Star Wars: Episode
VI - Return of the Jedi
Dr. Charles Ormsby
It is frequently
remarked that the number one objective of
any organization is its own survival and
growth. Often, little else matters.
Those who run organizations enjoy the
power, prestige and perks of their
offices. An organizations employees
seek job security while enhancing their
positions and increasing their pay and
benefits. The constituencies of an
organization, those who benefit from the
organizations services, seek to
ensure the continuity and enhancement of
their benefits.
None of these objectives can be achieved
unless the organization survives and,
preferably, expands. The parasites need
to eat and the more they multiply the
more they consume and demand.
It doesnt matter if others - those
who receive few if any benefits, but who
get stuck with the bill - are made to
suffer to ensure such growth. The beast
is growing and it needs its daily feast.
Our federal government represents the
worst case of obesity in our society. It
is Americas Jabba the Hutt. It is
insatiable. It is morbidly obese. It will
eventually destroy itself and everything
around it.
When our federal government was conceived
by our Founding Fathers, its diet was
strictly circumcised
I mean
circumscribed. Too bad it wasnt
castrated!
Our federal governments financial
nutrition was strictly limited by our
Constitution as originally written (see
nearby text box). The framers ensured
that tax levels would remain moderate
because they could only be levied in
proportion to the census and thus a
bullying majority could not target a
defenseless minority.
In Pollock v. Farmers Loan &
Trust Co. (1895), the Supreme Court
declared that income taxes were direct
taxes and thus unconstitutional. Because
of this ruling, the big-government
statists needed to remove the
constitutional constraints on the feds
ability to target the property of
individual citizens. It needed a
constitutional amendment to legalize
government-organized theft.
Today, thanks to the
Sixteenth Amendment (1913) which
eliminates these restrictions and allows
an income tax, we have half the
population piling over 97% of the burden
of funding our federal government on the
other half of the population. Worse than
that, it has eliminated any effective
restrictions on the growth of government.
The result: Our federal government now
commands 25% of the nations
economy. Economic growth is nearly
non-existent. The real unemployment rate
is nearly 20%. The lowest taxed 50% of
our population pays less than 3% of our
income taxes. The highest taxed 10% pays
70% and the top 1% pays 38% of income
taxes. The governments daily
on-budget spending has
increased from $3.6 billion each day
under President Clinton to a present
daily spending rate of over $10.4
billion.
The deficit spending picture is even
worse
much worse. Clinton ran
average daily deficits of $250 million.
We are currently spending $4.66 billion
of borrowed funds every day (that is over
$3 million each minute, day and night).
Today, government at all levels spends
over 40% of our Gross Domestic Product
($6.16 trillion out of a GDP of $15.08
trillion). In the era just before the
Sixteenth Amendment passed in 1913,
government spent approximately 7% of our
GDP each year and only 2.3% at the
federal level.
Jabba the Hutt is rubbing his tummy.
More! More!! MORE!!!
Our federal government has morphed into a
rapacious beast that makes the movie
character Jabba the Hutt look like a
fantastic blind date.
Date rape is an horrific crime. When you
say NO! your date should keep
their hands off. Jabba the Hutts
hands are all over us.
What does the left think the meaning of
NO is? When will our
pathetic, parasitic neighbors gain some
self respect and quit sponging off the
rest of society? When will their leaders
stop sending them into the streets with a
tin cup while pointing a gun at the heads
of prospective contributors?
Keeping the parasites fed while
feathering the nest of the liberal elite
is the name of the game in Washington.
Grow the parasite class and grow the
ranks of the arrogant elite that serve
them. Target a minority that has
insufficient voting power to protect
itself. Steal and then steal some more.
But all good things must come to an end.
And the end is in sight.
Reality is imposing its will.
The debt crisis solution just
passed by Congress only addresses a very
small fraction of our long standing
spending problem. Consequently, our
fiscal situation will continue to
deteriorate.
Jabba the Hutts weight gain will be
barely slowed. He will still gain $7 to
$8 trillion in debt over the next five to
ten years. All of these plans maintain a
trajectory headed straight for disaster
only the speed is slightly
diminished.
What is astounding is that our president
never presented or offered an actionable
proposal. This is incredibly
irresponsible.
It begs the same question posed two
months ago in this column: Is it
ignorance, incompetence, or purposeful?
Does Obama want the good faith and credit
of the U.S. destroyed? Or, is that threat
merely being used as a lever to further
his agenda of transforming us into a
socialist state?
There is hard work to be done. A very
nasty pill must be swallowed. Getting a
majority of voters to swallow this pill
will not be easy as long as our economy
is not in a state of calamity.
If it will take an economic calamity to
make us swallow the pill, one is surely
on the way.
Chickens do come home to roost. Reality
always wins in the end.
Looking back over the recent political
battles, I believe the Tea Party
Republicans in the House deserve the
praise of their supporters for fighting
the good fight. They do not control both
houses of Congress or the presidency and
therefore they only have so much
leverage.
We owe them our support and we must add
to their ranks in 2012; especially in the
Senate and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
What has emerged from the current fight
may keep us from a meltdown (although it
is not a sure thing) until the next
election. The focus now must be on
winning a clean sweep in 2012.
If we fail to win, Jabba the Hutts
voracious appetite will expand unchecked
and the American dream may be permanently
destroyed.
None of us can afford to sit this one
out. There is too much at stake.
Dr. Ormsby is an ex- member of
the N.A. School Committee. He is a
graduate of Cornell and has a doctorate
from MIT. He is currently a Professor of
Mathematics at UMASS, Lowell. You can
email him at:
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