Strategic Crisis Center, Inc.

Consider two cases of mass manipulation through a big lie: the first is directed against children, and has to do with Santa Claus; the second is directed against adults, and has to do with government programs and goodies. In the first case adults engage in a conspiracy to inculcate in children a belief in Saint Nicholas; in the second case, a certain party of propagandists engage in a conspiracy to inculcate a general belief in government entitlements. In the first case, a good outcome depends on whether a child is naughty or nice; in the second case, a good outcome depends on whether the public will vote for measures that promise to bankrupt the country, creating yet another department of government elves and overseers.

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Serge Kabud and Jeff Nyquist in discussion about Russia.

The complex market system that allows more than six billion earthlings to feed and clothe themselves is called capitalism. It is a system that produces unequal results. But if you take away capitalism the number of human beings on the planet will go into decline. In other words, people will starve to death. Without economic inequality there is no economic vitality, and no six billion people. Wherever capitalism is chastised and the government attempts to equalize or regulate economic outcomes, productive activity is discouraged; whether it is about growing food, making medicine, or building a better mousetrap. Take the following examples: Force fishermen to take government inspectors onto their boats, and you get less fish. Pass legislation to protect spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, and you get less timber. Eliminate prosperous farmers in favor of poor farmers, and food production will go into decline. Make health care a political right under a government program, and many doctors will give up medicine altogether.

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A grave strategic crisis is coming. The U.S. Congress has decided to allow the nation's nuclear arsenal to sink into disrepair. At the same time, the president is eager to sign a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, while Russia is modernizing its nuclear forces (not to mention what China is doing). It is possible, within a year, that America will have less than 400 strategic nuclear warheads. The strategic posture of the United States has become a makeshift affair; partly based on the dictates of political correctness, partly based on the false market optimism of a business community that wants to trade with Communist China. It does not occur to these businessmen that China is trading with them today in order to hang them tomorrow.