Philadelphia, PA - Under the deft guidance of Sam
Hinke, the 76ers lost spectacularly during the past season and anticipate a repeat
performance next year. They are doing
so on a shoestring payroll with young players and an eye to future glory.
A few blocks up the street, the Phillies are
doing an equally fine job of losing. Unfortunately, the Phils are doing it with
expensive older players who will only get worse with age.
American in 2014 may well be the 2014 Phillies
– old and overspent with no real plan for a better future.
Like the Phillies, we could dump existing
lineup, but is there really anything better in the farm system? What we have is another crop of palookas
intent upon clocking in time to qualify for pensions and earn their slots on banquet
circuit.
America should take a cue from Coach Chip at
the Linc and put in whole new system. Maybe
the whole liberal democracy thing has run its course. Maybe Lord Action was correct in saying that “power
corrupts”. Perhaps 250 years
of corruption has rotted the hull of our sinking ship of state.
Maybe a whole new playbook, a New Liberty
is called for. Let’s concede that
American constitutional democracy created greater opportunities for individual social
and economic advancement than monarchy, feudalism and all of the aristocratic
caste systems that preceded it. Still our
best days seemed to have passed as prosperity wanes, debt rises, dependency
grows and the ruling parties slather on war paint.
Fueled by the chicanery of central bankers, nation
state economies the world over are teetering on collapse. This includes Russia,
China,
Western
Europe and the Developing
World.
No one wants to see hardship but the worldwide house
of cards is due to collapse and a global correction is coming.
When that correction comes it will serve us
well to look to the prescriptions of Mises,
Hayek, Rothbard and the Austrian School in rebuilding. This
generation may have a golden opportunity to reboot a world that is free of
heavy handed statism with its never ending wars, intrusiveness, welfare dependency
and monetary crises.
And that’s all she wrote, sports fans.
This
blog is dedicated to the late sports editor of Rolling Stone Magazine, Raoul Duke, and to the Vincent Black Shadow.
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