SOCIALISM NEVER WORKS
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In today's colleges and universities they teach how important it is to plan for societies growth. I have read books written by some brilliant people who insist that if we just planned for growth we would have a utopia. I ultimately concluded that planning is socialism.
Anyone who thinks that planning for growth is anything other than an exercise in futility is either a moron or on drugs. Today’s planners meet in little rooms, draw pretty pictures on paper maps, use the prettiest crayons they can find, and--bingo--the city has a plan. Wonder and utopia are supposed to follow, and never again will the city experience traffic congestion or cosmic disharmony. The great plans, drawn by the learned planners, in search of community utopia, have all failed.
When the government draws up a plan, the plan works if the people who own the land agree with the plan. They think they will make money if they follow the plan. If they don’t think they will make money, the land stays vacant. Interestingly enough, even developers don’t decide what will get built, as they are also subject to market forces. Homebuyers and retail customers decide by choosing to visit the business or buy the homes that are built. Nobody builds a home that no one will buy, or starts a business that no one will visit. Customers and homebuyers decide. Not business, not developers, and particularly not government planners.
That is why I laugh whenever I hear the politicians talk about ten year plans. This week in the state I was born and raised, which is California, they had a bill for a ten year road plan. Of course, it takes 23 years to build a freeway, because they plan and plan, and never build. So what was the morons solution? Another plan of course. They have planned so well in California that today the roads are extremely congested, the houses cost entirely too much, the schools are horrendously overcrowded, the budget is out of balance, and they are running short on water, electricity, and gasoline.
And the fools continue to extol the soundness of government plans. We know that socialism is a failed experiment, as demonstrated by the failure of the Soviet Union. The moron politicians, however, think that they are smarter than the Russians and that socialism will work in California if we just have the right plan. Maybe they should try something different, like freedom and free enterprise, the principles that made this country great.
Anyone who thinks that planning for growth is anything other than an exercise in futility is either a moron or on drugs. Today’s planners meet in little rooms, draw pretty pictures on paper maps, use the prettiest crayons they can find, and--bingo--the city has a plan. Wonder and utopia are supposed to follow, and never again will the city experience traffic congestion or cosmic disharmony. The great plans, drawn by the learned planners, in search of community utopia, have all failed.
When the government draws up a plan, the plan works if the people who own the land agree with the plan. They think they will make money if they follow the plan. If they don’t think they will make money, the land stays vacant. Interestingly enough, even developers don’t decide what will get built, as they are also subject to market forces. Homebuyers and retail customers decide by choosing to visit the business or buy the homes that are built. Nobody builds a home that no one will buy, or starts a business that no one will visit. Customers and homebuyers decide. Not business, not developers, and particularly not government planners.
That is why I laugh whenever I hear the politicians talk about ten year plans. This week in the state I was born and raised, which is California, they had a bill for a ten year road plan. Of course, it takes 23 years to build a freeway, because they plan and plan, and never build. So what was the morons solution? Another plan of course. They have planned so well in California that today the roads are extremely congested, the houses cost entirely too much, the schools are horrendously overcrowded, the budget is out of balance, and they are running short on water, electricity, and gasoline.
And the fools continue to extol the soundness of government plans. We know that socialism is a failed experiment, as demonstrated by the failure of the Soviet Union. The moron politicians, however, think that they are smarter than the Russians and that socialism will work in California if we just have the right plan. Maybe they should try something different, like freedom and free enterprise, the principles that made this country great.
