I opened a Robert Heinlein book, Time Enough for Love, today to take things off my mind.
It is set in the distant future, over 2000 years from now, and opened with two characters discussing how democracy has long been disproved as a valid government structure because sooner or later people figure out they can vote themselves money.
The words echoed too strongly today, so I put down the book. We were at a critical crosspaths, and we chose wrongly. Obama represents a step back: the taxes aren’t even what worries me. It’s the outlawing of free trade, the capping of energy, the forced health insurance schemes, the support of subsidies, reducing NASA spending and research, et cetera that worries me.
He is the ultimate anti-progressive. In an age where India and China are looking forward and engaging in space exploration, the country as a whole has chosen to go backwards, hoarding their own shrinking assets, essentially conceding the future to Asia.
We’re already discussing a trip to Ireland next year. It is already the hottest trend for companies to set up offices in Ireland, and it can only accelerate. Google, who campaigned for Obama openly, have ironically been establishing a presence in the tax free land.
This will be my last post under FR. It’s been a short, but fun run. I hope I’m wrong.