Socialist life in the future will experience high cost along with product or delivery system failure. How so?
Consider government-sponsored business in comparison to free market business. Boeing 747 airplanes (manufactured and in use since 1969 with an expected continued use through 2022) hold a 53-year run. Its other long-run airplane (the 737) has flown from 1967 to an expected 2027 production shut-down, some 60 years.
Conversely, government-private produced Airbus A380 production runs from 2005 through its planned termination in 2021, a mere 16-year run fraught with supply line shortages, fly-by-wire cable shortages, leadership turnovers, and the expense of servicing airports.
Visualize government implementation and management of the elitist “Green New Deal.” The initial problem is supplying power through the grid to 380 million U.S. consumers. Grid management is a second-by-second balancing activity to maintain consumer demand while generating power supplies that insure non-interrupted service.
Wind and solar cannot respond in a like manner because of rotor-insufficient-response inertia. Solar has no capability to increase exponentially for short demand and battery systems sufficient to act in an interim capacity are non-existent.
If solar or wind generation relied on battery connection for short-term gaps, the technology is likewise insufficient to preclude outages or cascading software failure. Expect black-outs regularly and zero provision for reimbursing the back-up supplier.
Government’s handling in California of the “High Speed Rail” project is case-in-point for government elitist planning, management, execution, and non-transparent activity.
Some ten years ago California voters approved a $10-billion, 520-mile rail project linking San Francisco to Los Angeles for a 150-minute train commute. Elitist politicians promised voters that Washington, D.C., and private enterprise would pick up the cost. The sales pitch envisioned Fresno residents whisking off to high-paying jobs in Silicon Valley.
Subsequently, costs for the project rose to $80 billion amid litigation, engineering challenges, failed attempts to acquire right-of-way property, and private investors bailing out helter-skelter. As of 2019, it will now be a trolley run limited to between Modesto and Bakersfield. The “High Speed Rail" is but a small picture of prototype “Green New Deal” promises, actual outcomes, spectacular failures, and centralized planning shortfalls.
Consider seven high tax states which typify tax levels advocated by Ms. Cortez or Mr. Sanders. Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island all boast of better services but taxpaying residents see it otherwise. The states' roads, bridges, airports and other infrastructure fails to deliver quality comparable to tax rates.
Here's another example. Japan and Europe normally build subways per mile for between $160 to $460 million dollars. New York’s 2nd Ave. subway cost taxpayers $2.8 billion dollars per mile, while the Massachusetts 1.5-mile “Big Dig” required $24.3 billion.
The reasons for such extreme cost include union pay rates of $111.00 per hour, zoning regulations, environmental impact assessment, and benefits stack-ups.
In a collectivist elitist-operated state, the $3 billion offered by New York to Amazon was expected to yield nearly $200 billion in economic impact to the Big Apple. The public wanted the deal, but socialist ideologues concerned for corporate greed (as if they weren’t connected to the one-percent at the hip) killed the deal. The “Welcome to New York Amazon -- Now Beat It!” slogan fostered by Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez came with "Bye-Bye" to 25,000 jobs. This is the perfect example of government run amok.
Ocasio-Cortez and other advocates of “Green New Deals” or “High Speed Rails” are disconnected from any rational evaluation of government-driven products. “Medicare for All” is a $93 trillion lead balloon. The current federal unfunded liability is somewhere north of $190 trillion. Ocasio-Cortez's solution: print money.
Isn’t that what happened in 1930s Germany during the Weimar Republic when a loaf of bread cost $2 million marks? Bernie Sanders, like Ocasio-Cortez, offers comic book elitist socialism, not real world experience. Writers and graphic artists are unable or unwilling to depict true outcomes which don’t reflect the proposed story.
At a more local level, Californians also see their one-party state as a neo-socialist model for a nation trending hard left. Unfortunately, California’s 40 million residents rely on less than one percent of taxpayers to fund almost 50% of operating costs. Those one-percenters top tax rate is the nation’s highest. Can California afford to lose thousands of its wealthiest residents to a failed elitist idea?
Meanwhile, 2019 has seen 18 trillion gallons of rain in February alone fall in California. Where are the expanded proposition-based water storage capacities? Why are the plans still under discussion in Sacramento? With no water storage expansion, millions of acre-feet of runoff again pour through canals and rivers out to sea.
How can the Convention of States off-set the largess of the elitist collectivist/socialist minions? The Article V Convention of States is an actionable strategy for preventing a tyrannical, post-Constitutional society.
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