Falling Off The Fiscal Cliff

After a month or more of complete silence, Nannying Tyrants has returned with a hard-hitting post with which I found myself in almost complete agreement. The following bits, anyway:

Speaking about enemies, I have considered who ours are at great length and I list the four of them in the order of importance:

The mainstream media — I have long intended to write a proper blog post about the media, but for now, please know that the media is our greatest enemy. Without the media’s support, those who follow in this list could never have impacted us as greatly as they’ve done these past few years. I am all for a free press and freedom of speech, but the media has been actively and purposefully deceiving all of us and promoting a socially-divisive agenda for too long, all to sell their brand of news. Stay tuned for another post in the coming weeks.

I’m not sure whether I would have awarded them first place, but NT is quite right to say that they have enabled most of the horrors that have befallen us. But my response has been to stop listening to them. I don’t watch TV, or listen to the radio, or buy newspapers.

National Politicians — Our political system is utterly broken and beyond repair. This shambles of a government we call a representative democracy has failed. Completely. There is no saving it. It is a “demockery.” Trust me on this. It has failed everywhere, not just in Britain. If a politician votes against the wishes of the vast majority of the public and/or his constituency, then he is not representing anyone but himself (or herself) or his party’s beliefs. We have all been duped into believing that what we think matters. It doesn’t matter at all to these motherfuckers. They are truly not interested in your well-being; they seek only to empower themselves. They all need to go.

And he’s right again. We have a ‘representative democracy’ in which nobody is represented. Politicians today represent only themselves. They’re not interested in the electorate, except to go back every 5 years to tell them a pack of lies to secure their votes, before returning to government to do whatever they want to do – which mostly seems to be to line their own pockets, as far as I can see. I no longer vote for any of the bastards.

The EU — Some of you will say this should come before our national governments, but I disagree. If we could fix our national governments, the EU problem could be readily solved. You’ve probably noticed a lot of scaremongering coming from the leaders within the EU. That’s because they are desperately clinging on to the last vestiges of power they have. They know as well as you and I do that it’s all going tits up — it’s just a matter of when. The last three or four years, perhaps even longer, have seen endless plasters (Band-Aids for my American readers) stuck on the growing sore that is the EU, but none of these will or can cure the underlying infection. The EU experiment in control has also failed. It has become a rabid monster that needs to be put down by any means. I’ve always liked the free trade of goods and avoiding duty, particularly in respect of cross-border shopping, but upon honest consideration it’s simply not worth enduring the misery.

Another bullseye. It’s because our ‘representative democracy’ doesn’t work any more that our self-serving political class gravitates to Brussels – because that’s where all the loot is. But the EU is indeed going tits up, and the European political class is running more and more scared – I’ve been noticing the scaremongering too.

WHO / Public Health Advocates / Activist Doctors — Public Health should be about things like clean drinking water and fighting off communicable diseases. Instead it has become a breeding ground for prohibitionists and anti-capitalists and socialists, and it is most evident that the “cure” is far worse than the disease. Not to get all lefty-sounding here, but there are many places in the world where people still do not have clean water, where infectious diseases run rampant, so why are these prohibitionist cunts worried about how much booze you drink, plain packaging for tobacco, how much food you eat? Have they ever saved one life? One child? The answer is, “no.” All they really have done is destroy culture and lives, the very substance of our societies and social well-being. They have lied, they take and steal and use our money against us, and why the fuck do we put up with it? Any individual who works in or identifies with the current construct of Public Health must be considered an enemy. They must be given no quarter. Little minions or big minions — they are all equally dangerous and should be held to account. Do not play nice with these people, for they have not played fair at all and they do not intend to. It really is time to take off the gloves, don’tcha think? Or you can keep trying to play by their rules in a system rigged against you, and if you do, you will keep losing. Guaranteed.

I might have been tempted to put this ghastly crew right at the top of the list, because it’s them who get most of my attention. And these arrogant bastards really have been destroying culture and lives, and the very substance of our societies and social well-being, using outright lies and outright theft. I would have added universities here.

So where does it all end?

The main thing about almost all of these various cancerous developments is that they all entail ever-expanding government control and regulation. The EU has set out to regulate absolutely everything. And their servants in national parliaments (of whatever party) are out to do the same. The WHO and public health zealots want ever tighter regulation of the most private personal habits. And of course the environmentalists want to restrict ‘carbon emissions’ and replace coal and oil power with solar and wind power. And the effect of all these regulations is to gradually stifle every activity, and in particular economic activity. It becomes harder and harder to keep businesses afloat as the rules and regulations mount up (as Dick Puddlecote has repeatedly reported). Pubs fail as ostracised smokers stay home. And so on.

And the principal effect of all this stifling, strangulating regulation must be to slow, and ultimately to stall the engine of the economy. In fact, this process is far advanced already. And the result, sooner or later, must be a collapse of tax revenues for government and its armies of regulators. After all, it’s not these bureaucrats that create wealth: all they do is to consume it.  So money is simply going to dry up for the WHO, the public health zealots, the environmentalists, the global warmists, national governments, and the EU, and every other taxpayer-funded social engineering project. Whole armies of bureaucrats are going to be made unemployed (and quite likely unemployable). Tracts of government offices, national and local, will empty. Universities – mostly publicly funded – will be just as hard hit, and many of them will close down, dumping regiments of unemployable sociology professors onto the streets. And the publicly funded media (i.e. the BBC) will shrink dramatically. There won’t be BBC1/2/3/4/5/6 etc. There’ll just be the BBC. And it will probably be in black and white. Nor will the privately-owned media fare much better, because – let’s face it – they don’t produce wealth either. And all the fake charities will vanish overnight, leaving only the real ones.

And what then? My guess is that a new breed of politician will emerge – more or less all the previous breed of troughers having been evicted -. They’ll be plain-speaking men and women from small towns, with names like Arkwright. They won’t have media gurus, or speak in soundbites. They’ll say what they think, and what they think needs to be done right now. And their attention will not be focused on Brussels’ derelict offices, but on the constituents who elected them. They won’t have grand social engineering ambitions: they’ll just be wanting to get the electricity and water supplies reconnected in their home towns. Politics will become local. The town mayor will become more important than its Westminster MP.

And the job of parliament will not be, as in the recent past, to make more and more laws, but to un-make them all. Entire tracts of legislation will simply be revoked, with the express intention of revitalising the economy, and rewarding enterprise and imagination rather than penalising it. Utopian social engineering will be out, and practical, hard-headed common sense will be in. Smoking bans will be lifted, needless to say.

It will be a difficult time. There will be vast numbers of unemployed Community Outreach Officers and Environmental Footprint Engineers and Sociology Professors and Media Gurus roaming the streets, waving placards and shouting “Out! Out! Out!” But, gradually, the economic engine will begin to recover, and new enterprises will start up.

I can’t see any alternative to this. And perhaps it’s already started in the USA, which stepped off the Fiscal Cliff today, triggering automatic tax hikes and spending cuts. And even if they manage to row back, they (and the rest of the Western world) will remain on the edge of a fiscal cliff that has been created by governmental giantism, bureaucratic hyper-regulation, and utopian social engineering.