So the federal government has shut down? Good. I wager that it would take less than a year of such respite from Rome on the Potomac for America to bounce back. Without the federal bootheel on our necks, creativity could flourish unhindered; people could (and would have to) set the terms of their personal and economic interactions on mutually-agreeable terms, rather than on federal dictates; supply could re-adjust to demand; prices could find their natural level (likely falling dramatically); corrupt and politically-connected businesses would collapse like deadwood; new and productive businesses could emerge from under their shadows; and hordes of parasites who depend on federal coercion for their survival would have to learn how to become productive citizens again.
In the new America, however, even a day without totalitarian control over our lives is viewed as a calamity.
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