“The Plan”

The LTE in the NC Times warning of World Overpopulation, was another of the scare tactics used by the Left.

The population “problem” has two components, and it is the same two as all threats to mankind. ( see also, global warming).

1) Is it true?

And

2) If it is true ( that is, an actual threat to mankind), what do we do about it?

There are people, many worldwide, who will jump on ANY REAL OR PERCEIVED threat, to superimpose their personal political end-game, which is a single government (“World Government”) that can impose order in the chaos of (famine)(rising seas) (etc) and redistribute the wealth between rich and poor nations, because the rich can afford to feed the hungry and the poor nations cannot.

It is possible that there are real dangers from (fill in the blank), and they may be “clear and present”–but, first that case must be made and then a discussion of how to address that danger.

A nation that has been stampeded into ruinous stimulus and healthcare solutions that we are now repenting at our leisure, might just be a bit gun-shy (can I use that term?) over being rushed.

Those who believe that the “End of the World is Nigh” are some day going to be proven right, but the graveyards, worldwide, are filled with those whose personal time ran out before the world did.

I do not deny global warming. I don’t know if it is true, or if it will continue into the future, or if it does if it is, was, or will be exacerbated by human activity.

But I do not deny it. I suggest that we learn new things daily, and that future technology will prove or disprove the theory.

At that time we can determine a solution. I know that there are true believers who want to jump right to the solution, and they have a pre-determined solution in search of ANY problem that will work.

Many years ago my company designed a computer program for a San Marcos developer who had a “plan” which he replicated often. Every house in every development, nationally, had exactly the same house, same color, same everything, time after time…so he knew, to the nail and gallon of paint, exactly what his managers should report at 5 p m on the 13th day, and every day on every house.

All be needed was a piece of flat ground of x acres.

That is how I view many liberals. All they need is a crises, real or imagined, and the “machine” goes into action: A single solution (central planning with redistribution) in search of a problem, preferably a crises of enormous proportions so we can institute “the plan” without further inspection.

“The Plan” also appears to have several components: Make the legislation so large that no one can read or understand it; and push it through so fast that no one can stop it.