I have been a student of Orwellian Theory for a very long time. I write about it a lot over at Feeding The Blind. Yesterday I wrote a post about the economic down fall that the United States could be facing in the next few months. Yet today I have caught a sort of conspiracy bug.

If you are over the age of 18, you have most likely seen the incredible amount of tax money that has been taken out of your paychecks. This money has been starting to get disputed by the younger generations who think that it is unfair to pay in to social security because by the time they are at retirement age, inflation and population will wipe out any benefits that they could possibly count on. Futhermore, the cost of insurance and medical treatment is so expensive that even some of the larger corporations are cutting back on benefits or insurance all together.

The only solutions to these concerns in the past few years have been the privatization of retirement savings for the country and the socialization of medical treatment for the country. This got me thinking today. Privitization of the retirment funds of this country has not been accepted because of the concerns that individuals as well as the markets can’t be trusted to sustain the money needed to support the population. And Socialised medicine, we this is the USA, and anything even hinting towards socialism is instantly called Communism and dismissed. So what can the United States do before the majority of the population is too old to work, but too poor to live?

Here is an idea, start a war under false pretenses. This gives a great platform to ship off the youngest population that can vote and hold a job, control their pay and their lives. This takes money out of the private sector of the capitalist society by making sure these individuals are paid not to produce any profits, but only to use their pay to buy taxable items. Granted they can’t spend any of their pay, but their wives and children back home can. This literally takes a large portion of our population out of the consumer pool, but still allows them to feed the beast.

Next to make sure the war is supported by the consumers in the United States, increase the cost of the most popular and most used commodity of all, oil. But wait, this doesn’t encourage spending or does it? The largest fear in the United State is to lose you job when times are “bad”, so the last thing American’s are going to give up is driving to work, regardless of the cost. So in fact isn’t there more being spent? Sure, families are cutting back on the “expensive” brand name foods at the grocery store, but have you ever seen the option for generic gas? Think about the ratio, save 50 cents on canned corn, spend $25 extra dollars on a tank of gas.

So what to do next, I know attack the American Dream. Owning a home is part of the American Dream and an even bigger part of the American Dream is keeping up with the Jones. If the guy across the street has a big house, then everyone on the block needs a big house. This is not a new thing, however in the past there were safe guards against keeping up with the Jones. If you didn’t make enough money to have a house the size of a castle, then you simply didn’t live next to a castle. Even more so there was no way to borrow more money than you could afford to pay back in a reasonable amount of time. Well, now we have seen what happens when that safe guard falls and individuals are allowed to borrow way more than they need or can afford. Now the government magically took control of the 51% of all the mortgage payments for the next 30 years. That is a great way of taxation without representation, pay up because we own your house. Scary.

Finally, we come to the announcement from today. The government now bailed out one of the countries largest insurance companies. Not just bailed them out but gave them enough tax payer’s money to own 80% of the company. That is a quick way to control the cost of medical care, just control the insurance premiums. After all the cost of medical treatment is only high because of the amount of insurance doctors as well as patients have to pay.

I am going to close with one of my favorite George Orwell quotes, I think we all need to take a step back from our own distractions and see what is really going on.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. - George Orwell