Freedom and Fulfillment 21
Stand-alone Chapter - Killing the Golden Goose
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Aesop's Fable number 87[i] is titled, The Goose With The Golden Eggs.[ii] There are several versions of this story, but the gist of it is as follows:
One day a countryman going to the nest of his goose found a golden egg. Every morning thereafter the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs. Eventually, thinking to get all the gold at once, he killed the goose and cut it open, only to find nothing.
Fables often include a moral or practical application and the obvious moral of this one is to avoid short-sighted destruction of valuable resources. This truism has morphed into the well-known idiom "killing the goose that lays the golden eggs,"[iii] sometimes shortened to "don't kill the golden goose."
This naturally leads to the question, "What is the golden goose, and who is trying to kill it?"
History amply attests to the fact that free enterprise is the biggest, best, most productive golden goose ever. Freedom, private property, and the rule of law[iv] have combined to produce vastly more progress and prosperity than any other system, ever. In fact, capitalism created an explosion of creativity and productivity that has given us almost all the goods and services we enjoy today.
It is becoming ever more apparent that progressive politicians are trying to kill the golden goose. Whether by ignorance or intent, Social Justice Warriors fail to see that the principles of socialism and communism always lead to scarcity because their ideology is fixated on redistribution rather than productivity.
A few years ago I reluctantly began to issue warnings concerning the social and economic nightmare inevitably connected with the march toward compulsory collectivism. Sadly, most of what I predicted has already come to pass.
For instance, Biden regime attacks on efficient energy, combined with illicit spending, caused the price of food and fuel to increase by more than a third. If this trend continues, the value of our work and money could be reduced over 100% in just a few years.
Since it is impossible to honestly bumble into such a disastrous situation, it must be deliberate. Those at the helm seem to be intentionally killing the golden goose of capitalism intending to replace it with dead-duck socialism.
Rather than trying to avert this disaster, progressives have doubled down, insisting the Green New Fraud[v] justifies killing the golden goose. "Building Back Better" is already triggering empty shelves, which are the hallmark of socialism. Sadly, death spiral inflation is just the tip of the iceberg.
Years ago, Dr. Thomas Sowell[vi] summed it up this way:
It’s easy to see what motivates Democrats: Power, and the greedy idea that they can solve the problems of the human condition through more legislation, freedom-killing regulation, and the confiscation of wealth. Nothing new there. Individual liberty based on a free-market economy is the golden goose they’ve been choking for decades.
Recently, Dennis Prager[vii] explained how leftist goose killing goes far beyond economics, including the following: Art, music, journalism, education, families, race relations, sports, and free speech. Sooner or later the left will get around to killing your favorite geese.
Most of those who voted for leftists did not expect them to do this much damage. Current events leave no excuse for continued support of their deceptive agenda. Socialist ideologues have proven that they are willing and able to kill the golden goose. Every large economy they have dominated has suffered a productivity crisis, often to the point of starvation.
Personally and politically, we have to stop killing the golden goose.
© Copyright 2023 Gene Van Shaar
[i] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_that_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs
[ii] https://fablesofaesop.com/the-goose-with-the-golden-eggs.html
[iii] https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/kill+the+golden+goose
[iv] https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/this-is-a-leading-indicator-of-a-civilization-in-decline-34035/
[v]https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684510856/?coliid=INO3S8WHURFX0&colid=3R4LLWP2O6FFU&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
http://www.tsowell.com/
[vii] https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/a-brief-guide-to-leftist-destruction_4130947.html?utm_source=appan2028270?v=ul