As explained elsewhere in this blog, like years ago, laissez-faire capitalism is when the free market is genuinely free. That is, not regulated by government. And compared to what we got, it would be nice.
The term "laissez-faire" came about when France's Louis XVI asked this Swiss economist named Colbert what could be done to fix France's horrendous economy. See, at the time, the French court had reached a kind of pinnacle of arrogance and corruption. Louis had enjoyed a privileged upbringing and was totally infantile, his wife, Marie-Antoinette, was a spoiled Austrian clothes horse, and everyone else at court just kept taxing everything to support their lifestyles. They taxed the doors and windows of peasant cottages, stuff like that.
There was also a rising bourgeois -- middle class -- of merchants, manufacturers, artisans. They were very hard hit. And complaining.
So Louis asked Colbert for his recommendations. Colbert went to the bourgeois and asked them, "What can your divine monarch and supercilious ruling class do for you to improve your business and your lives?"
The answer was, very simply: "Laissez faire." Which means, leave me the hell alone.
So fast-forward 250 years or thereabouts and here in the USA we have a dolt who thinks he's a king, and a "ruling class" (they wish) in congress who can't do anything but raise taxes to support their lifestyles. Gulfstreams, limos, $30,000 a plate fund raisers, union leaders kissing your butt, pharmas sending you on expensive golf junkets in the Bahamas, etc. etc.
They in congress don't seem to have time to spend on things like developing a national budget -- cuts into their tee-times and attendance at sporting events and parades. So they appointed a committee of 12 to hammer out some kind of a budget.
As Newt Gingrich pointed out not too long ago, the USA already has a committee that's supposed to hammer out a budget. It's called "congress."
Be that as it may, this committee of 12 is supposed to come up with a budget by the end of this week or so, at least by Thanksgving, or supposedly there will be automatic cuts in spending for the military and entitlement programs -- like Medicare, but apparently not aid to useless professors.
And the committee of 12 doesn't seem to be coming up with anything. Doesn't matter, because deep in your heart you know Brain-dead Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, will just table it anyway. The Senate already has 16 budget bills passed by the House, and the Senate is just ignoring them. They have their fingers in their ears and they're humming "Hail to the Chief."
So now the word is, maybe those draconian cuts won't take place, because maybe the committee of 12 will put off the whole budget thing until after the next election.
LET ME ASK -- WHO THE HELL WANTS TO VOTE FOR ANY OF THESE BLOCKHEADS IF THEY CAN'T EVEN PUT A BUDGET TOGETHER? I MEAN, THEY'RE PROVING THEMSELVES TO BE USELESS IDIOTS.
IS THIS WHO YOU WANT REPRESENTING YOU?
And you'd think if the government had no budget, we'd get some kind of nice, happy laissez-faire situation, right?
Wrong -- because where congress fails to legislate all the socialist crap the Comrade wants, he turns loose the dogs of his executive branch to rule by decree. That is, with no input from and apparently no regard for the US public. And congress isn't doing anything to stop these dogs of regulation, even though I'm sure it's entirely unconstitutional.
Here's an idea: Clean Sweep. Throw them all out, along with all the over-paid, power-mad anal-retentive nannies in the executive branch, and start over with nothing but the Constitution.
Sound like a plan?
Oh, and by the way, Louis XVI didn't pay much attention to Colbert or the bourgeois. Marie in her wisdom suggested that if people had no bread, they should resort to cake. And they were both beheaded. And all the ruling class was beheaded. The bourgeois and peasantry had a positive Beheading-Fest at Place de la Concorde, a still-hallowed, large plaza in the very heart of Paris. The carnage went on for months. La Guillotine was invented specially to accommodate the swift, painless, and quite entertaining anihilation of France's upper crust. And their cousins, cooks, seamstresses, barbers, and anyone else who was a known cohort of anyone with even a drop of blue blood.
Just something to keep in mind.
Save the Republic -- but this government we can live very happily without.
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