Road From Serfdom — Feudal serfs gave the fruits of their labor and all of their freedom to a small group who lived very well.
Some want 21st Century America to be like that.
Tax money is providing public employees, such as these in Connecticut as noted in this link from PJMedia.Com, with $5 million tax-funded salaries. Pennsylvania might be better with its $300,000 top salaries, as per this 2009 article, but only in the sense that one would prefer to have one’s tires stolen rather than the entire car.
In feudalism, the serfs were told they got protection for their contributions to the lifestyles of the then rich and famous. Similar promises are being made today.
Give up your guns and we will keep you safe, the new feudalists claim. Sure, as in Mexico where a gun battle on Sunday in Reynosa just across the border from McAllen, Texas reportedly left dozens of gangsters dead. Mexico has very strict gun control, of course.
Give up your doctor and we will keep you healthy, they claim. Just as in Great Britain where it has been revealed that its National Health Service is responsible for 40,000 preventable deaths over the last few years.
Expect to be soon told that you can trust the doctor that you are assigned because there is no such thing as a bad doctor. It’s what they’ve been telling us about teachers after all to keep us from worrying our little heads about crazy ideas like school choice and cyber-charter schools.
We have to stop listening to these people.
We don’t need those who travel in luxury SUVs, and chartered jets and live in 20-room mansions with $30,000 utility bills to “protect” us from global warming.
We don’t need defenders of quotas and affirmative action to defend us from racism. Government is the cause of racism. It’s a way of dividing and conquering. Rosa Parks was not protesting the policy of a private bus company but a city law. Out of one side of its mouth, government tells some they need them to give them things to rectify “injustice” while out of the other it tells some they need it to build more prisons and put more people in them so they can keep their streets safe.
They want those who would otherwise be united against them at each others’ throats.
So what is the road away from serfdom?
— Start with demanding massive cuts in legislative salaries. Why should the chairman of Pennsylvania’s House Appropriations Committee make $90,000 not including benefits? In fact, let’s max all governmental compensation packages — including those at state universities — to $99,000. Yes, that would include benefits.
Replace most pensions with 401K type plans and for those where pensions make sense such as police limit them to the starting salary of the job description. Why should the taxpayer be on the hook for a pension that is two or three times that of Social Security? It should be noted that the starting salary of just about all job descriptions is significantly higher than what those on Social Security get, and it is kind of nice to able to retire at 45.
If an institution wants to pay its people more than $99,000 — that’s you Penn State — don’t give them any tax subsidy.
— Fight all gun control aimed at sane people who are not actively under a criminal sentence.
— Recognize that the power to choose (and fire) one’s health care provider is paramount in health care and fight to end Obamacare.
— Recognize that the power to choose (and fire) one’s child’s teacher is paramount in education. Demand that the money that now goes to public schools be given directly to parents in the form of vouchers.
— End automatic payroll deductions for union dues for all workers, government and private. Give the power of the purse to the union rank and file over the lifestyles of labor leaders.
— Let employers hire who they want to hire. So what if some are sexist/racist/homophobic. Most aren’t. It will soon be be evident to those now unaware that it is bad business to reject people for stupid, arbitrary reasons. It will also become evident that being a “protected category” was not beneficial for getting a job or being promoted as those now “protected” start finding themselves with better prospects. Ask this: why would anybody want to hire someone who they have to jump through hoops to get rid of?
And remember these are just starting points.
Road From Serfdom
