How to ruin governments and eviscerate people

When an entity truly hates people, one should not be surprised at the extent said entity will go to cause mayhem. We have seen it before, in examples as small as the jilted lover who says "If I can't have him/her nobody will", to Sadaam Hussein setting the Kuwaiti oilwells on fire in GW1. What we are seeing now in our society is an organized hated of a segment of our population, and the attempt to ruin it, regardless of the collateral damage. And if you do not believe that the folks behind this will not create collateral damage, just ask the families of the 4000+ dead, and the thousands of injured and raped soldiers of the current war.

The problem with a democracy, if you are part of the organized effort, is that it is democratic. In a sense, anyone with a vote, no matter how stupid, or radical thinking, pretty much cancels your vote. And now, knowledge is not monopolized, making the old saw "knowledge is power" a little different. So how do you control a government? You cripple its ability to function. And a government cannot function without money or resources. Of course, you gotta protect your "base". How do you do that? You decrease the amount that they have to render unto Caesar. Once that is done, you ruin the economy. Now your boys have gotten out with enough to keep them comfortable, and they are able to keep more of what they plundered, and you mop up the idiot sons who did not have enough sense to get out with "bridge loans".

But wait, what about the little guy and gal, who like a squirrel, was just trying to get a nut. SCREW THEM!!!! They did not buy into the system of government we tried to feed them, so let them suffer. Hey we never cared about them before now, so we will not lose any sleep going forward. Just to show you how ruthless we can be, we will have the First Chick wear $300, 000 worth of swag to the coronation just to make a point. You guys are little people, and as the dearly departed Leona Hemsley said before she willed $12 million to her dog, "The little people pay taxes".

Poor you. You expect to have good schools and clean water and safe streets. Well we can't afford it now. We need to protect ourselves from the "terrorist threat" and "shore up our economy". We all have to make sacrifices; Muffy and I are using the jet to get to the yatch less and less. Just think about how we are suffering.

And so it starts. Now that your pension fund is screwed, we should privatize Social Security to give you a better chance of getting even. And funding for schools will have to go down. And the potholes on the Interstate? Well you can't afford gas for the SUV you can't sell, so don't worry about it. For those of you who read my "Big Trends of 2008" letter, you know what I am talking about. The transfer from people to government and from domestic to foreign has begun. The desire to create a smaller government has started in earnest, and we may not have a way back, because even if we vote the bums out, the mess is neutron bomb like.

You have to hand it to them; their plan worked perfectly.