HELP is on the way

Paul Krugman writes again in the New York Times with his usual socialist, collectivist, statist fervor. As an economist, he is taking a macroeconomic view of the world, which means he views the world from the top down, as any “elite” person would. He views the world top down where government and the ruling, intellectual elites make decisions that affect the rest of us, for our own collective good–presumably because we’re just not capable.

True to the ongoing theme of my site, here, I ask more fundamental questions. Other than offering an opinion, what gives Krugman or anyone else the right to make my decisions for me? From where do they get their power to do this? From where do they get their moral justification to do this?

The answer is ‘nowhere.’ There is simply no justification whatsoever in our system of government that permits this. There is simply nowhere in our Constitution that specifically authorizes collectivism on the part of the Federal government. If we are to decide, as a society, that certain decisions should be made collectively, then those decisions are only Constitutionally permitted by the States government or local government levels. That IS Constitutionally permitted.

Our Founders’ understood that the reason this method works better is that it opens up two critical paths. The first is the marketplace of ideas to find creative solutions to complex problems. Healthcare is incredibly complex. It is simple hubris on the part of Krugman and the other Federal Statists to think that they can come up with the ONE optimal answer that works best. That is simply improbable.

What if they’re wrong. What if they do have my best interest at heart and they simply make a mistake. This brings up the second important point: we must have the liberty to opt out. We must have the liberty to move ourselves and our family to a different State or locale where things work better, in our own opinion. This is Constitutionally guaranteed right that we have, and it is critically important to the American Republic.

In conclusion, we must retain the marketplace of ideas, where many different attempts are made to solve our social problems. And we must retain the liberty of mobility, to move to a different locale or State, when things don’t work out in the marketplace of ideas. Only then will the really good ideas be rewarded and the bad ideas go away. When bad ideas flourish in the Federal Government, they stay–the power base is just too strong.

This is the root of the problem with concentrated Federal power and our Founders knew it all too well.