Redneck Review!
No. 133 - 11/6/17
Years of teaching long ago taught me that there comes a time to review, then move on or risk bogging down and losing whatever interest might have been there from the start! This is the intention here, to review and conclude arguments made here in the past!
First, let’s agree that relying on predictions or prophecies made months or years or even centuries ago may or may not give a person reliable information about the future and what it holds for us!  Maybe "death and taxes" is the only future we can reliably predict!
To begin, lets us ask what common sense tells us about any situation in which a certain percentage of a group works hard, taking care of themselves and the tasks assigned, while a significant number sit back, enjoying the fruits of the those who work, but do very little to contribute themselves.  A football team is a good group to think about here! Is it not true that everyone there must be counted on to work hard and take care of the tasks assigned if the team is going to enjoy any success? Even one slacker can spell defeat!
Can it be any different in an economy which must produce the goods and services which are needed by all?  Does it not make sense that a significant number of "takers" choosing to live off of the efforts of the "doers" not pose a serious problem of survival for all?  And really, is not the huge expenditures of our national government which has accumulated over twenty trillion in debt not tell us that all is not well with our U.S. economy today?   Can we really be comfortable continuing to spend billions at the national lever that we do not have, and not expect it somehow to pose an impossible problem to solve for future generations?
And have we not enough information from the past that tells us this cannot go on... and on...and on... as some "experts" would have us believe?
We have cited at length here what Davy Crockett learned from his voter friend Mr. Bunce, that government handouts taken by taxing the "doers," or producers, then given at random to anyone in a need of some kind, is not "charity" at all, but a violation of the trust voters put in the people they choose to represent them! Is it not true that it is "Not theirs to give?"
And was not Frederik Bastiat telling us something obvious in his book THE LAW, when he called the random giving of tax dollars from the earners to selected recipients not just a type of theft which he chose to call LEGAL PLUNDER, legal only because government was doing it?  And did not he and Congressman Crockett both not predict that nations doing this eventually would be forced into unsustainable debt and  bankruptcy and collapse?
And what do we think about professor Alexander Tyler's claim that all democracies have a life expectancy of about 250 years before voter demands force the government into debt and bankruptcy?  Past RNR's have detailed the steps he claimed would lead to this final end!
Does not the current state of poverty and near revolution in Venezuela developing under their current socialist system with its government policy of "equal shares for all" not send a clear message that those systems never work?  Is not the past failure of the same system in Cuba, and Russia and other countries around the world not a lesson much the same?  And why do
we so casually ignore the history of our own United States and the remarkable progress made in the past, and the free enterprise system which triggered that progress!  In other words, will we as a nation learn from the past in order to forestall the disaster which threatens our future?
Jake Wren

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