There is an endgame for social democracy. As Margaret Thatcher said: socialism endeth when you run out of other people’s money. And that will not look good.

Sadly, for the beneficiaries and the benefactors (more accurately, parasites and producers), this system cannot last. For there are some Malthusian mathematical limits inherent into this system. What those precise limits are is hard to say, but sooner or later the number of parasites will grow to the point they will out-consume what the producers can possibly produce.

And that’s when the Parasitic Human Bubble will burst.

Like the housing bubble or the dotcom bubble, it’s hard to predict precisely how it will burst.

It could be dramatic where one day the EBT cards won’t work, the TANF check bounces, or the WIC office is closed. The parasitic humans will get upset, raid the local grocery store or Wal-Mart before they starve, but this will only exacerbate their problems as on the supply side stores will close and refuse to be re-supplied. Once their pilfered supplies run out, the parasitic humans will be forced to forage for food elsewhere forcing them into areas where people are more heavily armed, overly-taxed, and quite pissed off about being forced to support a parasitic class for decades. Riots and firefights break out and in comes the National Guard. Martial law is established, rationing is enforced, but this only sends us down the spiral further and faster as such restrictions grind the economy to a halt, and society inevitably collapses.

This could be incredibly damaging and decrease the trust of any person in their rulers. Particularly in Europe, where your long term savings, your pension plans are being seen as something to milk.

The source of this stunner is a document seen be Reuters, which describes how the EU is looking for ways to “wean” the 28-country bloc from its heavy reliance on bank financing and find other means of funding small companies, infrastructure projects and other investment. So as Europe finally admits that the ECB has failed to unclog its broken monetary pipelines for the past five years – something we highlight every month (most recently in No Waking From Draghi’s Monetary Nightmare: Eurozone Credit Creation Tumbles To New All Time Low), the commissions report finally admits that “the economic and financial crisis has impaired the ability of the financial sector to channel funds to the real economy, in particular long-term investment.”

The solution? “The Commission will ask the bloc’s insurance watchdog in the second half of this year for advice on a possible draft law “to mobilize more personal pension savings for long-term financing”, the document said.”

Mobilize, once again, is a more palatable word than, say, confiscate.

In the meantime, the foundations of society are crumbling. I have placed a couple of posts about how this effecting medical ethics, provision of healthcare and the liberal church this week.

But our leaders, despite their accountability, and signs that things are not heading in the direction any of us would want, are advocating further shattering of the ties that bind society together.

Similar to passports, every decade the 10-year marriage license would need to be renewed or it expires. This way, unhappily married couples who’ve been suffering together get the option to “not renew” every decade, without having to go through a long, painful and costly divorce process.

On the flip side, those who are happily married can simply pay the state a $25 renewal fee and continue their marriage without a hiccup for another decade.

This idea has been proposed before, but Valentine’s Day is the ideal time to get serious about it.

Why the 10-year checkpoint you may wonder?

Here’s why: When couples marry, they have no idea what the future holds or who they will be in 10, 20 or 30 years. What if you, or your spouse, change as the years pass and you grow apart? What if you fall out of love as easily as you fell in? What if a spouse cheats, becomes an addict or worse? The reality is there are so many unforeseen circumstances that can torpedo even the best relationships.

What if you try marriage counseling and nothing improves?

Do you really want to sign a lifelong contract locking you into a bad marriage — forever?

Think about it: Would you sign a lifelong contract with your dentist? Employer? Hairstylist? Or landscaper? The answer: No.

So why are we signing lifelong contracts with a lover?

Are you really that confident your partner today won’t be a source of unhappiness years from now?

Concerned a 10-year renewable marriage license agreement may weaken “traditional” marriage? I believe couples will put more energy into maintaining their relationships if the renewal date is imminent.

Knowing marriage isn’t a “life sentence” anymore, couples will treat each other better and be more intimate and loving partners because you simply can no longer take your spouse for granted.

This fundamental change in marital dynamics could actually decrease divorce rates.

A 10-year renewable marriage option may also increase marriage participation rates overall. Here’s why: There are millions of single “realists” out there who are afraid of a lifelong marital commitment — knowing full well how high the divorce rate is — so many may feel more comfortable signing a 10-year marriage agreement.

Well, no. Marriage is a lifelong commitment, and I say this as one of the casualties of this divorce epidemic. Having children is a lifelong commitment.

Well, it is to a certain extent the consequences of decline. We make what is trivial serious, and what was serious trivial.

And although I do accept there is such a thing as coincidences, I note that the propaganda around the Sochi Olympics is failing. The memes are no longer working. The progressive project now requires doublethink. You can tell when we are heading for the endgame: for the signs of tyranny come, such as getting children to tattle on their parents.

The game is called “Cross the Line” and many outraged parents believe that it does just that.

A middle school in Marinette, got a group of 5th-8th graders together and organized a really fun game that asked students to step forward to answer “yes” to a series of highly personal questions.

Questions like…
Do your parents drink?
Do you cut yourself?
Has anyone in your family been to jail?
Have you ever wanted to commit suicide?
Do you or your parents do drugs?

Unbelievably, school administrators believed that this “game” would help the kids to be better and kinder friends. “The intent of this activity was to build stronger, more respectful relationships among students,” said Principal Shawn Limberg. The “game” was part of an anti-bullying program.

Of course, Limberg also said the “game” was completely voluntary, an assertion that was disputed by one young girl who told her mother she’d have to go to in-school suspension if she didn’t participate.

Several parents voiced their concerns and had them brushed off. Amanda Fifarek, mother of a 7th grade student, told FOX 11, “They basically told us that all the students were lying…all the students got together and planned it out and if they weren’t lying, it was all misperceptions. They didn’t specifically say do your parents do drugs.”

Now, we could be heading for a soft landing. We may be heading for a crash. I don’t know: I have as much ability to see the future as the tin pukeko in my garden. But I know one thing: If something cannot go on forever, it will not.

And I consider Remus of the Woodpile Report gives good advice when he says that in times of crisis, stay away from crowds.

For you cannot let bubble after bubble occur without there, eventually being a payback. Louis XVI bankrupted France supporting the American Revolution, and the subsequent depression set the conditions for the French one. As Bubba Clinton used to say, it is the economy: and the policies of the progressives have, in this crisis failed. The countries that could not or would not rescue banks and QE — Iceland, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia — are getting out (though Aussie had socialists regulating everything and that has driven them back into a recession). The progressives, inflating their currency, will, if lucky, be heading for a decade of decline.

If not: the situation in Argentina beckons: either hyperinflation or deflation, and a mistrust of any government, any bank, and institution within the nation-state: a devolution to a the clan or the tribe.

Since January 2007, the government systematically underestimated inflation and thus overestimated economic growth, critics said. Even close government allies abandoned the official data, demanding 2014 pay raises of more than 30 percent to keep up with inflation officially estimated at just 10 percent a year.
The new index was designed in consultation with the International Monetary Fund, which shamed the government last year by refusing to include its economic data in global reports.

Many Argentines also have lost faith, feeding inflation and capital flight by trading their pesos for dollars as fast as they can. Last month’s sudden 20 percent currency devaluation also sent inflationary shocks through the entire supply chain, making it difficult for businesses and customers to know what a fair price is anymore.

“The worst thing the government did was intervene in the statistics institute. It’s like breaking a thermometer; you never know if you have a fever. Now they’re putting out a new index. It will have a cloud of doubts over its validity,” university professor Elida Repetto, 53, said as she bought vegetables.

Look not merely at the headline inflation rate. Consider your power bill, your taxes, and how much basics cost at the local markets. White goods, cars, clothes, shoes and consumer goods may be cheaper, but you cannot eat them: and a manufacturer cannot survive without raw materials.

And if you do not live in a part of the world where live can be sustained without much trade, and where the majority of people are of your tribe, you are taking huge risks. For in times of stress, Kipling is a better advisor than those who think they can send the US Olympic team to Russia to preach gay pride.

The Stranger

The Stranger within my gate,
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk–
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
But not the soul behind.

The men of my own stock,
They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wanted to,
They are used to the lies I tell;
And we do not need interpreters
When we go to buy or sell.

The Stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control–
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.

The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.

This was my father’s belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf–
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children’s teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.

Let our wine be not vinegar, and our bread not be rotten. Let the progressives rot: we can live better, and we should live better.