The Only Way Government Bureaucrats Know Of

Government Welfarism, With Its Ever-increasing Army Of Pensioners And Other Beneficiaries, Is Fatally Easy To Launch And Fatally Easy To Extend, But Almost Impossible To Bring To A Halt - And Quite Impossible Politically To Reverse, No Matter How Obvious And Catastrophic Its Consequences Become.

There Is A Strange Idea Aboard, Held By All Monetary Cranks, That Credit Is Something A Banker Gives To A Man. Credit, On The Contrary, Is Something A Man Already Has. He Has It, Perhaps, Because He Already Has Marketable Assets Of A Greater Cash Value Than The Loan For Which He Is Asking. Or He Has It Because His Character And Past Record Have Earned It. He Brings It Into The Bank With Him. That Is Why The Banker Makes Him The Loan.

The Army Of Relief And Other Subsidy Recipients Will Continue To Grow, And The Solvency Of The Government Will Become Increasingly Un Tenable, As Long As Part Of The Population Can Vote To Force The Other Part To Support It.

Practically All Government Attempts To Redistribute Wealth And Income Tend To Smother Productive Incentives And Lead Toward General Impoverishment.

If A Government Resorts To Inflation, That Is, Creates Money In Order To Cover Its Budget Deficits Or Expands Credit In Order To Stimulate Business, Then No Power On Earth, No Gimmick, Device, Trick Or Even Indexation Can Prevent Its Economic Consequences.