A socialist doesn’t care what you do as long as it’s compulsory.
This probably doesn’t have to be said to readers of this blog, but with all the easy money currently available (The government’s answer to every problem is to do more of the same thing that caused it.), there is, even now, at least one bubble forming. When this bubble bursts, everything but easy money will be blamed. Count on it.
Yesterday, I outlined the Big Lie of government intervention in schooling, preceded by a relentless propaganda campaign which ignored and distorted facts and removed all accountability. Today, I will give another example and see where it led.
Socialism uses coercion to make only one thing possible and then justifies the outcome as necessary. For example, Ontario, Canada was once served by private suppliers of electricity until Adam Beck, a socialist with government backing, used every coercive trick to put them out of business. While this was being accomplished, he proceeded to found a “public utility” which did what all public utilities do. It hid costs, incurred huge debt and become a model of inefficiency. This public utility had many consultant engineers in spite of having hundreds of engineers on payroll. One engineer of my acquaintance got many consulting contracts which gave him several chances to visit “The Sea of Elbows”. He would go to a large room with dozens of cubicles separated by three feet high partitions, each cubicle with an engineer. There he would observe the “Sea of Elbows” as the high priced help leaned back in their comfortable office chairs and contemplated their situation with their hands clasped behind their heads. Apparently the creation of this ridiculous and expensive enterprise met with royal approval because the ruthless pursuer of public good became Sir Adam Beck.
The bill from this utility is more than passing strange. It has charges as “debt retirement”, “regulation charges”, and “delivery charges”, all of which are much more than “electricity charges”. With any government utility, the amusement is unintended, but it ain’t free.
Cheerio and ttfn,
Grant Coulson
