A little recent history and a lesson or 5

According the CIA's official history, Meyer, a
Fortune magazine editor whom Casey recruited as a
senior aide, scoffed at the agency's estimates of
Soviet growth. He explained:

"Everything I had been able to learn about
the Soviet economy, including visiting the place,
told me it couldn't be growing at the rate the
CIA said it was ... It simply couldn't be true. I
know what an economy looks like when it's growing
3% a year, and that isn't what it looks like ...
You cannot have food shortages growing worse,
production shortages growing worse, bottlenecks -
all those things we knew were going on - and
still have an economy growing at the rate the
agency said it was - which the US was barely
doing at that point ... It couldn't be true."

Meyer left the CIA more than 20 years ago, and
the Clinton years restocked the CIA with the same
sort of second-string academics against whom the
Reagan people had rebelled. The howls of pain
attendant upon the accession of Porter Goss as
the new director of central intelligence suggest
that a similar rebellion now may be under way. In
any case, Meyer's conclusion that Europe is
beyond repair is consistent with his earlier
reading of Soviet decay.

So goes it as regards the state, all socialist
to some degree or other as they feed on their
subject victims from democide to vampirism,
sucking the life from them. And making a mega-state
in an attempt to save it is futile.

The victims will soon be sucked dry.

von Mises was right long before anyone else figured
it out.

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