Highway robbery …..

At least that is what David Warren calls the Federal Government’s bailout plan for GM and Chrysler – and blaming our gutless Conservative Party as the primary culprit -see http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/

Well, if it were only that simple! I have no dispute with David’s essential assumption, although calling it “highway robbery” is incorrect because such action would require the intention to do just that (either openly or surreptitiously) while the intention is here to save the jobs of the employees – however misguided the whole concept may be. (No doubt David has a point with respect to the many MPs covering their behinds by supporting this plan – this being a natural outcome of psychological default in a voter democracy – as can also be seen in the behaviour of liberal politicians in the EU with respect to the modern demographic pressures from Islamist constituencies. But I think that this is more of an assisting nature rather then the primary cause).

No specific group can be blamed for the direction our government is so unwisely embarking on in this case, particularly as we are just walking in the footsteps of our big neighbour to the south (not that this alone would give it greater legitimacy but it underlines the tremendous pressures that are at work within our so-called democratic system).

And that brings me again to my favourite subject – the malfunction or our governmental system per se. It is here the problem lies. If our elected guardians were not beholden to the voters and in fact were not beholden to any specific parties we may not be in this mess to begin with but most certainly would not have been tempted or cajoled into such a ridiculous bailout plan. If our guardians were instead appointed from the country’s professional guilds they might have had a completely different outlook on our economic as well as our political affairs – nor could they have been exposed to undue pressure from voting constituencies.

Now that I have stated my point, however briefly, I have no illusion that any changes in this direction are afoot nor that they could be officially promoted at this time in our political development, underdevelopment or misdevelopment. In order for such ideas of guild government to even surface it will require major catalysts of a different order and also no doubt a further disintegration of our system would need take place - the phoenix only rises from the ashes and while we are well on that way I would not hold my breath for such remedies in the immediate future.