Stupid census commercial
February 18, 2010 – 11:22 pm by JohnHave you heard that radio commercial encouraging people to participate in and cooperate with the census because it allows local, state, and federal governments to allocate money for schools and determine how many teachers a town needs and so forth? The narrator says there are four science teachers in this one school because there are this many schools and such-and-such number of students, but if people don’t participate in the census, then governments won’t know how many students there are and how many teachers are needed. See, if the government’s micro-managers just have enough data and enough computing power, they can wisely decide when, where, and how much of everything is needed!
This is the type of crap that will dominate our lives if people don’t stop trusting politicians and start realizing the free market’s price system is what allows resources to be allocated the most efficiently, where they are needed, with minimal waste. This type of bureaucratic calculationism has impoverished hundreds of millions of people in socialist countries since the early 20th century—for example, in the Soviet Union, where people stood in bread lines and factories produced millions of huge nails and screws in order to meet their production-mass quotas more quickly and easily.
In a free society, the price for labor would be highest where it is needed the most, and it would decrease when it is less needed. No government program or bureaucracy can crunch enough numbers to make decisions anywhere nearly as well or as fast as the price system of the market. If the government weren’t screwing education systems up and then offering more of itself as the solution, the need for science teachers would be signaled by high wages and other attractive perks of the job. The need for more schools or more students at a particular school would also be signaled by greater profits or lower prices. This is a microcosm of the State-vs.-liberty argument, in which Statists claim certain things would never work fairly or resolve themselves justly without the benevolent, monopolistic State to make it so. The economy is simply one major facet of human action and interaction, and no facets are immune to the laws of human nature that make liberty more just and efficient than Statism.
One Response to “Stupid census commercial”
Good observation.
The audacity of those scum vile putrid filth bureaucrats to even suggest that the federal government is a necessity to make correct proper most basic decisions as implied in the many types of radio ads I have heard indicates to me at the attitudes within those foul putrid bureaucratic lackey vermin who are lap-dogs of their elite class and corporate masters.
Are those idiotic bureaucrats and their masters so isolated and insulated that they are unable to ascertain the meaning(s) within the message they are sending out to the masses?
I am saddened by how little outrage I have read or heard about those Census radio ads.
Those ads speak volumes to me about the attitudes held by what I believe are MANY bureaucrats at all levels of government; from federal to the local level.
I am not griping about the Census. Nay.
I AM shouting out to all Americans to be aware of the ATTITUDE(S) held by too many bureaucrats and their elite-class masters towards the common American as conveyed by the current types of radio ads declaring that without the data provided by the Census and then with OUR doled-out wealth that even the most basic tasks could not be accomplished!!!
Need 10 more desks at the local school? Without the feds and their over-paid bureaucrats the locals would never know it.
Need more traffic controls? Perhaps another lane for the highway? No way would the locals figure it out on their own.
Those ads are basically proclaiming that without the high-level politicos and their over-paid bureaucrat lackeys We, the People, are mere helpless children dependent upon our betters lording over us.
By Obbop on Mar 16, 2010