Monday, January 07, 2013

Tapped Out

Gerard Vanderleun writes at American Digest about a woman he used to see in Boston who asked passers by if they could "spare a quarta?" Times have changed.

We may, from time to time, be able to spare a quarta only so long as all our quartas are not constantly demanded of us. Quartas to spare can only come from surpluses.

Of late, those surpluses have been converted by events and history into deficits. Put simply, we can, at the present time, no longer afford to fund our ever expanding compassionate state. Compassion can never be made compulsory and cash-flow positive at the same time. Whenever and wherever compassion has been made compulsory the people soon find they no longer have care or quartas to spare.

Read more here: http://americandigest.org/

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