“Laissez-Faire-Et-Laissez-Passer”

From Miriam-Webster Online Dictionary

laissez-faire

One entry found.

Main Entry:

lais·sez–faire

Pronunciation:

\ˌle-ˌsā-ˈfer, ˌlā-, -ˌzā-\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

French laissez faire, imperative of laisser faire to let (people) do (as they choose)

Date:

1825

1 : a doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights 2 : a philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice and action

— laissez–faire adjective

From Wikipedia Online

Laissez-faire (pronunciation: French, [lɛsefɛʁ] (help·info); English, ˌleɪseɪˈfɛər (help·info)) is a term used to describe a policy of allowing events to take their own course. The term is a French phrase literally meaning "let do". It is a doctrine that states that government generally should not intervene in the marketplace.^[1]

The term is often used to refer to various economic philosophies and political philosophies which seek to minimize or eliminate government intervention in most or all aspects of society.

 

What the heck is going on here?

Today my wife and I had a small spat(something that has been extremely rare in our 40yrs of marriage), and which I did not assert myself as to what my feelings were. I did so on purpose, for the sole reason that I suddenly became aware that her attitude was in fact what was actually happening with the great majority of the population of not only the United States of America – But the ENTIRE POPULATION OF PLANET EARTH!

People are tired. Pure and simple, people are tired of fighting “City Hall”. People have developed a Laissez-Faire attitude toward everything political in general and they are not going to pay attention to what the politicians do any more until it directly affects them.

What was this spat we had? It was about something that Glenn Beck was saying about our government spending and being out of control. My wife looked at me and said, “So what? We all write to them and they just ignore us and do whatever they want! Look at what they said about the Tea Party we attended, they just wrote us off as right wing radicals spouting off and did nothing about what we were protesting about! So what good does it do for us to protest, they will just ignore us again and do what ever they want! Why bother at all?”

And that, my intelligent readers, is EXACTLY the attitude that this administration wants everyone in America to adopt!

Laissez-Faire!

Or more specifically “Laissez-Faire-Et-Laissez-Passer” . . . In English – “Let Do And Let Pass”.

In other words, just let the government do whatever the government wants to do and do not bother yourself with the business of government!

We need to wake the American people up and get them involved in what this government is doing to them. I have used what happened in 1930’s Germany as an example and that hasn’t worked, I have tried to point out the similarities with the Soviet Union and that hasn’t worked, I have pointed out that all this spending will result in extremely higher taxes and runaway inflation and that hasn’t worked. I do not know what will wake these people up before it is too late, but I do know that we have to wake them up – and P.D.Q!

Maybe we need to try and wake the rest of the people on this planet up! What do you think? How could we do that? And if the rest of the people of Earth started waking up, would that cause the rest of the American people to start waking up as well?

Do you see where my thinking is leading me?

Maybe this really isn’t just an American problem any more, maybe this is really a planetary problem!?

What do you think? Am I getting any where near the ballpark on this?