In the movie Matrix, when a deja vu happens, it is supposed to indicate a change in the Matrix. Well, that is certainly the case when reading through this bill that the House is soon to be voting on.
It seems like the New Deal all over again: extreme measures, vast resources stolen by the Federal government from the private sector in the name of stability and liquidity, flaying around in every direction based on ghastly economic ignorance, a complete disregard for underlying reality, every effort made to completely screw up everything and fix nothing, plus vast increase in dictatorial power along with extreme limits on debate and discussion.
It is horrible to see it all happening again. And though every poll shows vast public outrage, the Congress and the Presidency seem to be on some kind of conveyor belt toward the achievement of economic destruction. Everyone involved in this outrage deserves certain political defeat and to be trashed in the memory of all people everywhere forever.
Beyond that, it all gives rise to apocalyptic thoughts about the astounding stupidity of political leadership, the inability of humankind to learn anything from history, the deep and abiding ignorance of the state concerning all lessons of economics, the way in which special interests completely own the process of politics, and other such thoughts. But it is all too much to even contemplate.
