Saturday, July 9, 2011

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Continuing disastrous results of a program put into place by a well meaning and rational policy maker would cause such a leader to change course . . . to try something else.


That, however, is not the case when the policy maker has the mindset of an inquisition torturer. Those who either have evil motives or are motivated by blind faith in an ideology seem always to insist on more of the same . . . on inflicting more pain.  Just tighten the rack another few notches and the antiChrist (if he or she doesn't die first) will confess to being a heretic or a witch.


The same mindset is being exhibited by the so-called progressives with respect to the calamitous economic policies they have inflicted on the nation. Their program of ever increasing regulations, taxes, spending, and wealth transfers (a.k.a. "spreading it around") has failed. It has proven to be an utter and abject disaster for the country. Nonetheless, its promoters insist that the program was too limited and that all that is needed to achieve the supposedly desired results is more of the same.


That insistence demonstrates that their motives are not those they profess or that they are not rational or some combination of both these disqualifications for being entrusted with public policy setting authority.

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