Two fronts or covers that are being held up as camouflage for crony patronage schemes (where the rich use the government to rob the poor) are health and climate. Everyone wants good health, and everyone benefits from nature. Because that is so, it is lucrative to con people into believing that your scheme benefits health or nature.
It is exactly what travelling salesman who used to sell snake oil as a cure-all did.
But besides destroying opportunity for the common person to get ahead and to better their lives, the fascism which results from technocrats hoodwinking the public hinders wealth creation. This makes the entire nation more poor, even while rich cronies line their pockets with policy-directed funds.
When you can afford your lifestyle, you can have some savings left over, and those savings can fund future investments which keep the economy going. When living paycheck-to-paycheck, you have zero net savings, and no investment into the future for yourself and your children.
But fascism creates a situation even worse than that: It creates “negative net savings.”
When net savings go negative, it means that you have to borrow against your own future, just to stay where you are. Because not enough people have demanded free enterprise, look at the situation that we’ve let our corrupt leaders bring us into:
While net savings in the first half of 1965 were a full 13% of GDP, net savings recently have gone negative — indicating that Americans have got to borrow against their own future, just to remain where they are today. It also means that there will be no current investment in future economic output.
This is the poverty which fascism brings to nations. It cannot be fixed with government deficit spending. That spending actually makes poverty worse. Check out the annual interest paid on the national debt, as it approaches $1 trillion:
This path is not sustainable, and free enterprise — including eradication of domestic surveillance — will be required to restore America as the hope of the world. The next time that a pandemic scheme or a climate scheme is introduced, then just say “No!”
1000 percent. The new robber barons are just the latest iteration of fascists from generations past. The sad thing is that people continually beg for interventionism while whining about their degraded dollars!