Next Crisis Please

I haven’t posted much lately about either the implosion of the IPCC-AGW-climategate, or the implosion of the Obama driven healthcare “crisis” along with the depreciation of Obama himself. Both of these are fabricated crises, created with the transfer of wealth in mind. This made them fair game for quite a while. But now it’s like kicking a downed dog, it seems a little cruel to bludgeon them any further.

What is more interesting now is to watch for signs of the next manufactured crisis that will need massive government intervention. Perhaps it will be a continuation of the bailouts, or maybe a new war, possible with Iran or North Korea, both of which seem to be spoiling for a fight.

More likely the Lefties will find some humanitarian failure that only $$ can solve. It will be an “acute moral imperative” that we spend this cash into a new arena where only the highly ethical are investing. The Soros / Gore types will have their new organizations in place to cash in on the new, highly moral, government cash flow.

Will it be energy independence? Global hunger is always available. Maybe AIDs. Or possibly something new and entertaining, like the homeless crisis was.

Keep your eyes peeled and let me know if you detect a trend.

In his book, “The Vision of the Annointed”, Thomas Sowell chronicles the crises of the 20th century that were not actually crises at all, they were trumped up to appear as crises by the self-“anointed” elites. Sowell analyzes the thought process behind the crisis generation, and the stonewall of silence that accompanies the abject failure of each moral program. A recommended read.

And I recently posted about the Cloward-Piven philosophy, one that advocates stressing the governmental system beyond the breaking point, and utilizing the chaos of the collapse to generate a more socialist system.

I remember many of these costly and doomed forays of the elitist, socialist moralizing. Along with the aforementioned homeless crisis, there have been the war on hunger, the war on poverty, the war on the population explosion, the war on pollution, the war on environmental catastrophes of one type or another, the war on DDT, the war on the unborn, the war on marriage and the family, the war on endangered species, the war on oil companies, the war on insurance companies, the war on drug companies, the war on energy companies, the war on auto companies, the war on Wall Street, the war on capitalism and corporations in general, the war on nuclear energy, the war on BT or biologically modified crops, the war on farmers, the war on beef, the war on religion, the war on wars, the war on the constitution, the war on the Boy Scouts, the war on home schools, the war on the white male, the war on drugs, the war on the death penalty, the war on McDonald’s and Wal-Mart, the war on carbon, the war on absolutes, truth and morals… just to name a few. Some of these fizzled right away while others became institutionalized.

Somehow, under the “commerce clause” in the U.S.Constitution, the federal government has expanded to cover crises in education, labor, endangered species, hate crimes, even the amount of water per flush and the carbon emissions per engine cycle.

In almost every case, there is a declared moral imperative to resolve the perceived crisis by government intervention, usually in the form of regulations that require new bureaucratic organizations that never, ever disappear, even when the “crisis” itself is found bogus and disappears. This has resulted in a government that is parasitic on the private sector to the point of near collapse, an effect that seems to have an accelerating arrival time. But that will not stop the generation of an all-new crisis, one that has a declared acute moral imperative to be resolved by more government expenditures and more bureaucrats.

I’m just not sure what that crisis is, yet.