Bad people are always willing to fight. If good people are not willing to fight, they will surrender in a succession of small steps, and bad people will rule. Without England declaring war, the Nazis would have ruled by 1942. Without Reagan encouraging a multitude of small wars, the communists would have ruled by 1990
Month: April 2010
Capital Controls
Capital controls are characteristic of third world dictatorships teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. And now America has capital controls.
How much ruin in a nation?
On the one hand, there is a lot of ruin in a nation. On the other hand, that which cannot continue, will stop. The present level of government spending is unsustainable. At what point then, do we get general collapse?