Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Progesssive socialists Use/Abuse Other Peoples Money for Political Gain

A progressive socialist government has no intention of being responsible, they are awash in other peoples money, taxpayer dollars. If they run out of your tax dollars, they print more. Quantitative Easing (QE 1, 2, 3, - - -)? Who cares about the debt or deficit? Certainty not the socialist, the ends justifies the means.

A progressive socialist government has as it's agenda to take as much resources as possible from the productive among us as a tool for controlling those that can not or will not provide for themselves, and therefore establishing a willing voter base that has no options but to bend to the demands of the progressive agenda.

The fact that sooner, rather then later, the money will run out and the printing presses shut down leaving the those that have been compromised in the cold. Little wonder the socialist Democrats are pushing so hard now to gain as much ground as they can before the floor drops out completely in the economy.

Chaos will reign and where their is chaos, the Democrat find profit. Remember Rohm Emanuel, chief of staff for Mr Obama, and his statement about taking advantage of a crisis?

 This is the very bases of the progressive agenda, people and the country are just tools to be used and abuse as necessary to accomplish the overall goal of absolute control of all outcomes. To believe otherwise is to place yourself at risk.

Why Government Institutions Fail to Deliver on Their Promises
Source: Veronique de Rugy, "Why Government Institutions Fail to Deliver on Their Promises: The Public Choice Explanation," Mercatus Center, December 4, 2013.
December 16, 2013

Public choice theory shows that government solutions not only fail to solve most problems but often make problems worse, says Veronique de Rugy of Mercatus Center in testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Public choice theory applies economic analysis to politics.
  • Economists operate under the assumption that individuals act according to self-interest. So, public choice theory applies that same assumption to government actors.
  • Similarly, individuals are driven to act prudently when buying, investing and saving in the marketplace. But those same incentives do not exist within government management. Because government decision makers are using other people's money rather than their own, they do not face the same type of risk that an individual faces when making a decision. Moreover, there is little, if any, reward for acting wisely, effectively or efficiently.
  • On top of all of this, individuals are busy. They lack incentives to monitor the government sufficiently, because they make the calculation that is not worthwhile to expend the time necessary to follow issues effectively.
De Rugy cites a Department of Energy's loan program (the program that funded Solyndra) as an example of how this operates:
  • Loan programs transfer risks from lenders to taxpayers. And because the loan is guaranteed, banks have less incentive to evaluate loan applicants thoroughly. Taxpayers are stuck bearing the risk of these programs.
  • Loan guarantees create incentives to shift resources toward subsidized products, because they become safe assets which can then attract private capital, independently of the project's actual merits. More viable projects are left without funding, while subsidized projects thrive.
  • Political incentives emerge from loan guarantees, leading to cronyism.
 

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