"We don't need to devalue the currency.."

In a recent conversation with some friends over President Elect Barack Obama's 1930's style public works proposal, our one particular well-meaning cohort declared that we shouldn't worry about the devaluation of currency that would result from all the money that would have to be printed in order to pay for "the biggest public-works project since the 1950s." He suggested that we could just confiscate all of the materials necessary, as they are readily available within our borders already. This man holds a Master's degree in Economics, I hold a Bachelor's in what is essentially Logic and Applied Mathematics, and our third friend is Engineering and Finance. Yes, we do this for fun.

"We don't need to increase the money supply in order to get at least some of this work done, because we have the hammer, nails, and wood with nothing at all to stop us from going ahead and building the damn birdhouse," he stated. Yes, we have nothing to stop us, as I see now that we have declared that central planning and nationalized industry didn't work for the Russians and Chinese because they were big, fat, doo-doo heads. Excuse me if I use childish language; arguing against the socialist agenda first requires one to understand the immature minds that conclude on socialist policies.

Part of the concept behind "of the people, by the people, for the people," is the idea that the government is not above us, but below us. The government must work as a player from within the market, not a puppeteer from without. If the government cannot obtain the materials it needs to prosecute public works projects at fair market value (and I mean the real kind, at auction like everyone else, not this hack job of sending in the Army Corps of Engineers to devalue your holdings and a Judge to claim Imminent Domain), then they don't get to have them any more than I get to take your dessert pie at a price I deem fair over your disagreement.

This includes people resources as well. Say Obama goes through with his compulsory Super-AmeriCorps service/Obama-Youth program. Conscription in a free market is exactly the same as robbing the people (and thereby the economy, the government, everyone, since we are all one and the same) of value. If you can't pay people enough to entice them into joining this "Community Organizer Corps" over taking private industry jobs, and you force them into service, then the difference in their salary is what you have robbed out of your own economy.

It doesn't help if -- instead of confiscating the materials and services directly from the companies who produce and provide them -- you engage in rampaging devaluation of the currency. It's just spreading the cost of that confiscation to everyone prudent enough to save during a time of irresponsible economic behavior. Congratulations, you're encouraging people to run up even more debt than the rest of the nation is already in.

This is why Obama is arrogant, because he thinks he can solve the problems caused by the government's manipulations of the economy by manipulating the economy, and because he believes he is the only one who can do it. Time and time again, central planning has been proven to be a horrific crime against humanity. Need I remind anyone that the Great Leap Forward in China ended up starving to death more people -- 43 million -- than were killed in World War I, with one year less in which to do it, at a time when weather *favored* agriculture? Are we going to go back to dumping milk on the ground when 50% of the population of Zimbabwe -- a country once called the "Bread Basket of Africa" -- is starving because *their* Arrogant, Socialist Narcissist can't wrap his head around the fact that he is the cause not the solution? You show me the last time a socialist correctly predicted the most efficient use of resources. And speaking of resources, aren't they a major talking point in the public debate, the "dire situation of our dwindling, non-renewable resources"?

This is why all Social Liberal Fascists are arrogant. They think that the only way to be compassionate for our fellow man is to use proactive policy to try to "help". They insist that the fiscally conservative laissez-faire policy is too cold and heartless to be good enough, even if it can be proven to be the greatest good for all. They think that the "little people" cannot help themselves, that it takes the greatness of the Socialist to save them. They do it not because they really want to help people, they do it because they want to feel GOOD about helping people, and they can't get that by taking hands off. And by golly, you're going to agree or it's off to the gulag with you (or at least social ostracization because the *only* reason you could possible believe the way you do as a conservative is because you're a racist).