Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Stealing is the Purpose of Governments
Since the dawn of human civilization stealing values from the populace
has been the essential purpose of governments.
The Pharaohs and Kings of ancient civilizations actually owned in the
entirety all the lands under their dominion and control together will
all the personal property including the pitiful human inhabitants who
lived at the whim and mercy of their rulers.
In short, most ancient rulers together with the ruling class – their
extended families -- simply stole all the property in the kingdom for
their personal use, including the very lives and labor of the people,
leaving only miserly scraps for most of their subjects with which to eke
out a subsistence living.
Even today in communist hell holes like North Korea the dear leader and
his small cadre of government thugs have essentially stolen everything
in the country while leaving their people starving and in miserable
poverty with no chance at any sort of decent existence.
Stealing valuables from the people is how governments stay in power. And
that includes the once magnificent but now terminally corrupt and
bloated government of the United States of America.
So it should come as no surprise to anyone that governments everywhere
on the planet today are beginning to come apart at the seams after
centuries of theft and political corruption at the expense of the
people. It has happened again and again countless times over the last
10,000 years.
The recent financial crisis in Cyprus is one of the latest frightening
examples of blatant government theft. Most of the socialistic European
governments are fast approaching the financial breaking point in which
they cannot seem to steal valuables from the people fast enough to avoid
their own collapse.
In Cyprus the government is abandoning any pretence of respect for
individual private property, honesty and integrity. The parasitical
government thugs have closed all the banks in that small island nation
and are now in the process of looting private money – in some cases up
to
40% of the funds -- from innocent account holders, to help pay for a
(EURO) $15.8 billion financial bailout for the purpose of putting off
government bankruptcy.
"It's a precedent for all European countries. Their money in every bank
is not safe," said lawyer Simos Angelides at an angry protest outside
parliament in Cyprus' capital, Nicosia, where people chanted, "Thieves,
thieves!"
"The damage is done," said Louise Cooper, who heads financial research
firm CooperCity in London. "Europeans now know that their savings could
be used to bail out banks."
This sets an ugly new precedent that is likely to spread throughout
Europe and eventually to the United States if these governments don’t
begin to bring unsustainable spending under control.
Until now, tax hikes and thefts from bond-holders have been how Europe's
bailouts have been handled. But confiscating savings in banks and
denying people access to their property without warning is something
entirely different. That is bound to do great damage to peoples’
willingness to save, invest and build wealth.
Think again if you don’t believe this kind of government burglary could
ever happen in the United States. Even now there are Washington
politicians who are greedily contemplating the expropriation of the $19
trillion in Americans' private retirement savings accounts to pay for
more big government spending and financial bailouts.
They’ve already done it with the Social Security Trust Fund. That’s been
thoroughly looted leaving only a worthless IOU, so why not private
pension funds? We are fast approaching the point where we’re forced to
kiss individual freedom goodbye.
Without private property there is no freedom.
There are no longer any safe places in the word to keep your money. Even
if you bury it in the back yard or under your mattress it will
eventually become worthless from inflation brought on by the government
printing presses.
In the midst of all this worldwide financial woe, including our own
financial crises at home, we see that
Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States, and his
entourage of government parasites just finished spending the
unbelievable sum of $585,000 for a one-night stay in a Paris hotel. His
one-night stay in London while on the same trip cost taxpayers nearly
$460,000.
The costs "are in line with high-level travel across multiple
administrations," explained an unnamed State Department official.
Then there’s President Obama who recently flew his Boeing 747 jumbo jet
Air Force One on a four hours round trip to Chicago at a cost of
$182,000 per flight hour, not including separate planes with his massive
security detail, for a photo op and a 15-minute teleprompter speech
about reducing the national appetite for oil.
With ridiculous government spending like that it becomes obvious once
more that stealing is the purpose of governments.
© 2010 Timothy J Taylor.
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