Inside Job - Akira the Don, Paul Harvey

See ours is not the first by George good government to arise on the world stage,

there have been several

Rome, Spain, and Greece, and China, and each enjoyed about a hundred and fifty

years at its zenith

And that’s just about our time in the new world

And then each decayed away

Not one of them was ever destroyed by anybody else’s marching legions

Each rotted away morally, socially, culturally, economically simultaneously

You know one of the most cruel paradoxes' of history is this

Because each was a good government it bore bountiful fruit and when it bore

bountiful fruit the people got fat, and when they got fat they got lazy,

and when they got lazy they began to want to absolve themselves of personal

responsibility and turn over to government to do for them things which

traditionally they had been doing for themselves

At first there appears to be nothing wrong asking government to perform some

extra service for you

But if you ask government for extra services government, in order to perform

its increasing function, has to get bigger, right?

And as government gets bigger, in order to support its increasing size it has

to, what?

Tax the individual more, so the individual gets littler

And to collect the increased taxes requires more tax collectors so the

government gets bigger and in order to pay the additional tax collectors,

it has to tax the individual more so the government gets bigger and the

individual get littler and the government gets bigger and the individual gets

littler, until the government is all powerful and the individual is hardly

anything at all

Good government bore bountiful fruit and when it bore bountiful fruit the

people got fat, and when they got fat they got lazy, and when they got lazy

they began to want to absolve themselves of personal responsibility and turn

over to government to do for them things which traditionally they had been

doing for themselves

Some believe that the need is for a vigorous, strong man

To rise on the scene

To regulate and regiment the affairs of men (REGULATORS!)

Yet, history tells us there have been several such

Once upon a time there was a nation great and powerful and good

Few were suffering from the aftermath of war, from a depression

And then came upon the scene a leader, an idealist, self confident,

intolerant to criticism

A wise lady limited his early activities to combating the financial

Depression, nobody could argue with that, but in a while he began to regulate

business and establish new rules to govern commerce and finance

Some of them in diametrical disagreement with the God-Made laws of supply and

demand, but anybody who disagreed with those new rules was promptly fired

The new leader saw that under the old system of free enterprise landlords

prospered, so he levied new taxes to take away their profits and destroy what

he called then «Monopoly of Capital»

To please laborers, he controlled prices

To win the favor of the farmers, he

Gave them loans and subsidies

The National Debt mounted, alarmingly

Whenever anybody tried to tell him «that governments, even as people,

can go broke, when they spend beyond their incomes», he said «They just didn’t

understand deficit finance.»

Well, what do you say?

Did he build on rock or on sand?

I say on sand

For you see this was the story of Emperor Tsu Tong Phao who led China to its

doom more than a Thousand Years Ago

Because each was a good government it bore bountiful fruit and when it bore

bountiful fruit the people got fat, and when they got fat they got lazy,

and when they got lazy they began to want to absolve themselves of personal

responsibility and turn over to government to do for them things which

traditionally they had been doing for themselves

I am satisfied with all my heart that if Uncle Sam ever does get whipped,

here too, it will have been an Inside Job

It was internal decay, it was not external attack that destroyed the Roman

Empire

Starting about 146 B.C.

internal conditions in Rome were characterized by a

welter of class wars and conflicts, street brawls, corrupt governors,

lack of personal integrity and moral responsibility

Street brawls, corrupt governors, lack of personal integrity and moral

Responsibility

Street brawls, corrupt governors, lack of personal integrity and moral

Responsibility

Street brawls, corrupt governors, lack of personal integrity and moral

Responsibility

Street brawls, corrupt governors, lack of personal integrity and moral

Responsibility

Street brawls, corrupt governors, lack of personal integrity and moral

Responsibility