"Bollinger: Rich bully is getting his way" (NY Post)

ShruggingSheep
Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:13:05 +0000

The fact is the powerful and connected – the Bloombergs, the Bollingers, et al – don’t really need strong legal protections. Nobody’s going to take their property anyway…Those politicians and their cronies are quick to rely on legal protections when their own interests are threatened by people outside the political system.



Is this news to anyone?



But by undermining the property rights of the unconnected, they weaken the social contract that protects their own positions.

As with our actual currency, our political class has debased the moral currency by which it governs, as well. May they have joy of the results.



Sadly, this “woe-unto-thee” part will probably never play out. I doubt the poor, uneducated, and disenfranchised will even think of trying to change the rules of the game (much less be allowed to, if they do end up thinking about it).