Gummit Time

The elected lying bastards have created a new form of time. It replaces our existing standard of time. But not for everyone. Only for them. This new time is like slow motion time to the rest of us. I call this new time "Gummit Time". Here is how it works...

Let's say the gummit wants to replace the curb/guttering in your street.

If a private company was to do it, they would mark it out, dig up the old curb/guttering and prepare the ground for the new curb/guttering, all on day one. On day two they would lay the new curb/guttering and driveway access concrete and let it set overnight. On day three they would finish off and be gone.

Gummit time works differently. Under gummit time, the gummit workers (gummit and worker are normally not two words you would see in the same sentence. But let's just call them workers for the sake of the example) would arrive at 7am and mill around for an hour. Maybe one of them would hop in a bobcat and make a bit of noise but not get much done. After about an hour and a half there would be a smoko. And an hour and a half later would be lunch. And an hour and a half after that they would begin packing up to get ready to knock off for the day.

In the four and a half hours of available work time, they will probably have marked out what they want to do and begun to dig up the old curb/guttering around the corners of the street.

On day two they will have dug up half the old curb/guttering.

On day three they will have dug up the remaining curb/guttering.

Day four will entail getting the ground ready for laying the new curb/guttering. But, because all residents will have big holes in front of their driveway, a lot of the day will have been spent taking away the "road-base bridge" they had created to allow the residents to get in and out (a road-base bridge is basically a heap of road-base rubble which has been dumped into the hole to fill it, just in front of the driveway, so the residents can get out).

Day five will be spent laying the new curb/guttering. Then the weekend begins.

Day six (the first day of the second week), will be spent taking down the star-pickets covered in yellow and black striped warning tape they had placed to prevent people driving on the new curb/gutter. Checking the curb/guttering for scribblings left by kids for all eternity. And general milling about.

Day seven will be spent getting the surround ground ready to be returned to normal - such as replacing grass which was dug up.

Day eight will be spent laying the new grass and possibly flattening the dirt between the curb/gutter and the fence of each house so the cars can drive in and out without getting bogged down in lose dirt.

Day nine will be spent adding bitumen back to the road where it was ripped up when they dug up the old curb/gutter.

Day ten will be spent tidying up.

Two work weeks for the gummit to do it working to gummit time vs three days for private enterprise to do it.

Here's another example...

If you send your money to a private company for something, they will usually have the thing back to you within 48 hours. Often, the thing goes back out to you the day your request arrived. Sometimes the next day. It has to be this way because private companies survive on their ability to satisfy the customer. Shoddy response times will see customers go elsewhere.

Gummit time is different. If you send money to the gummit for something, it will take up to two weeks to get back to you. BUT, if it is urgent, you can send a larger amount of money and it will get done sooner, somehow.

Of course, the gummit worker (again, these two words are used in this sentence for example purposes only) doesn't know any different. He is paid by the hour and just does what is in front of him. If other people have to wait, he doesn't care and really doesn't know any different.

What takes a private company a day to do, takes the gummit, working on gummit time, a week or two to do. The gummit doesn't have to worry because there is no competition - they made it a law that there is no competition to the gummit. And they also make it a law that you cannot go ahead with whatever you needed the gummit-supplied-thing for, until you have to from the gummit.

The gummit employees don't care. Whether they do a lot that day or a little they still get paid the same amount - so why do a lot. Never realizing that the money they are paid is forcibly taken from non-gummit value producers under threat of punishment and dumped into the gummit kitty from which they are paid. Without the incentive to perform - which private companies have - the gummit is inefficient and sees no need to actually get things done fast. And so they operate on gummit time. A form of time that sees them take two and three times as long to get anything done when compared to private enterprise, and at a speed which looks like slow motion in that comparison.

With about 50% of the work force employed by the gummit - and thus ultimately supported by the other 50% of the free enterprise value producers whom the government forcibly takes money from to provide that support - the chances are some (many) of those reading this actually work for the gummit. To you I say:

My remarks about the gummit are not personally aimed at you. For you are a product of a system which dissuades effort and achievement, removes incentive and encourages you to do next to nothing. My remarks are designed to make you see the gummit for its true nature - a self serving beast that taxes effort and infringes upon the property rights of its citizens at every turn; a beast which is nothing more than a glorified and self-legalized protection racket; and a beast which has actually imprisoned you while simultaneously giving you the impression you are free (you are free as long as it is doing what the gummit wants you to do).

You can deny this all you like. You will just be denying reality. And denying reality won't get your very far. And is the same as those of years past who denied the reality of a round Earth and proclaimed the world to be flat.

The Scourge Of Moral Justification

If there was ever a term to sum up WHY great evils have been committed throughout the ages, it is "Moral Justification."

Hitler "morally justified" what he did. Stalin "morally justified" what he did. Mugabe in Zimbabwe is "morally justifying" what he is doing now. And over at The West Bank there is a lot of "moral justification" going on as the Israelis and Palestinians kill each other on a daily basis.

But it isn't just mass murder which "moral justification" is guilty of.

Sure the Spanish Inquisition saw hundreds/thousands killed in its name. And there is a lot of blood being shed right now also in its name. But people have lost their lands and houses to it. Even the gummit steals the fruits of our labor under its guise as well.

In the state I live in, the gummit FORCED an additional tax on to our electricity bill. This tax is supposed to go to the ambulance. So if I need an ambulance I do not have to pay for it. It is kind of like FORCED subscription ambulance coverage.

Sure you have the choice of not paying it. But what are you gonna do when your power gets turned off? Cook using candles?

Being the oppressive white greedy capitalist I am, I figured a user pays system would be the best way to run it. Offer a subscription to those who want to subscribe. And for the rest, charge them as they use it.

I called my local lying bastard (member of parliament) and told him I objected to the new "levy" - they called it a levy and not a tax so it sounds less harsh. And I discovered their "moral justification" was to help the old people. "What about old people who can't afford the user pays system?" was the response. It didn't seem to matter that maybe after a lifetime of work they should have a little bit more in reserve to be able to afford an ambulance trip instead of living pension check to pension check. Somehow, the gummit feels "morally justified" to steal the fruits of my labor and give it those people.

Even our income tax was "morally justified" back in 1915 to pay for the war. I guess the lying bastards just forgot to remove it.

One of our local lying bastards has "morally justified" holding onto $9,000,000 of money which was charged to land developers and which shouldn't have. The mayor wants to give it back because it is the right thing to do. And loud-mouth lying bastard says the council is justified in keeping it all. HEY! How about returning it because you falsely took it in the first place you scum bag?

What else?

Every time you have a property right infringed upon it is because of "moral justification."

Smoking in restaurants?

Not any more. We are "morally justified" to ban smoking because it might make the whales sick, or some such shit.

I got a better idea. How about the person who decides whether smoking goes on in their restaurant being the restaurant owner? And how about, if staff don't like working in smoke then they don't have to work in that restaurant and can go work in a smoke-free one, or even choose another profession?

Guns?

Yep. The lying bastards "morally justified" deciding some of my gun were illegal and FORCED me to hand them over under threat of jail. So much for my property rights. What was once legal and fine was suddenly not legal and fine and I was treated like a criminal.

What kind of gummit threatens its own law abiding citizens with jail for not doing what they are told? What am I, a kid? It would seem so to the lying bastards.

"Moral Justification" is not about doing what is right (what is right is right according to property rights). It is about doing what you can convince others is the right thing to do no matter whose property rights you infringe upon, nor how many people's property rights you infringe upon.

This is the wonderful child of democracy. Mob rules - and "moral justification" is mob rule. What the mob wants is automatically "morally justified." And what the mob is forced to do is "morally justified" as best for the mob by the lying bastards who the mob gave power to.

The French Revolution & Food Aid: Curse Of The Do-Gooder

Back in 1789, the French had had a gut-full of the royals and nobles and decided to have a revolution. While there are a number of things which came together to bring about the revolution, in a sense they are all a part of the one thing - the French King Louis XVI.

Basically, he was a bastard. He taxed the heck out of the peasants and working classes while the nobles paid no tax. He had independent tax collectors gather the taxes for him, who could actually collect more tax than the prescribed amount and pocket the difference. This was on top of the compulsory Labor Tax - which saw the tenants having to work for free for the land owner.

To this burden, he added more burden by spending all the money he raised from taxes and borrowing to such an extent that France was, in fact, bankrupt.

And to top it all off, the French had had a few years of bad crops. So there was a food shortage. The farming peasants began leaving the land and heading into the city. But the price of staples, such as bread, was too much to pay for most people so they went hungry.

So with bad crops and no money coming in, high compulsory taxes that were levied regardless of income earned and affordability, and no food, the conditions were ripe for a revolution.

Now I won't go into the events which transpired over the revolution years that saw a government come to power, the royal power removed, the royals killed, and then Napoleon the dictator take control. For they are things that happened during the ten years of the revolution. What is more important for this entry are the causes as mentioned in the previous paragraph. Which basically mean, the people had been pushed past the point of putting up with it. They had finally had enough and acted.

IF it had been modern times, we would have do-gooder groups supplying food for the hungry, clothes for the rag wearers, government subsidies to support farmers trying to farm desert, and a whole bunch of stuff. All of which means, those who suffer are eased in their suffering just enough to prevent them from "revolting".

If such a do-gooder system had been in France at the time, the hungry would have been fed just enough to keep them placated. And the revolution probably would not have happened.

And as you look around the world at the tyrannical governments, you see masses of aid pouring into the country. Enough aid to keep the hungry and homeless people "housed" and "fed" to the extent they have no real need to revolt and get rid of the despotical government regimes.

If those aid organizations pulled out and the government in question had to deal with the problem, we would see the people overthrow their tyrant leaders, eventually, just like the French did with their government.

And also like the French, it might take 75 odd years before a general consensus is reached and a fairly stable system is in place. Or it might take many decades, as it did after the U.S. broke free of their English bonds. But it will happen.

However, today's do-gooders won't allow it to happen. They will come in and assist the tyrant governments in keeping the people placated just enough to prevent them from revolting.

Even our modern western governments do this - they have learned their lessons well. As long as the people are fed and have a roof over their heads and can suckle of the state teat, they will remain docile sheep.

Look at how the UN and other aid groups helped the Iraqi people. They kept them in heinous conditions with just enough food to keep them from revolting, while empowering Saddam with wealth and weapons enough to quash the small pockets of resistance that would crop up from time to time.

Zimbabwe and the Sudan are another couple of examples.

And remember Ethiopia back in the '80s? Aid For Africa, Live Aid, Feed The World and all the other bullshit. No-one ever bothered asking WHY the Ethiopian government had let this happen. No-one blamed the communist Ethiopian government for the impoverished conditions they created. Instead, they helped the government keep the people under the yoke by giving them just enough food so they wouldn't overthrow the government that had put them into that state in the first place.

If we leave well enough alone, impoverished people WILL overthrow their tyrant leaders. Maybe not this week or even this decade. But it will happen.

Of course, as long as the do-gooders keep interfering, they will keep those people enslaved to their despot leaders who kill the country's citizens to achieve their ends. Welcome to the caring of socialism.