PrintMarch 13, 2010
The Rube Goldberg Progressives
Progressives in America are wedded to the Rube Goldberg approach to the running of our economy. Rube Goldberg became famous through his cartoons depicting overly complex systems to accomplish simple tasks. Rube Goldberg's name has been adopted into the Merriam-Webster dictionary as an adjective used to describe accomplishing by complex means what seemingly could be done simply. From a scientific perspective, the Progressives who currently inhabit Washington, D.C. need a physics lesson to dispel the faulty notion behind their Rube Goldberg economic system and economic perpetual motion machine. As an organic, self-organizing natural system, our economy can be viewed in scientific terms in much the same way as the physics of energy. Potential energy is stored energy -- for example, a spring that is compressed. When the potential energy is released, it is transformed into kinetic energy, or the energy of motion. Kinetic energy is realized when the compressed spring is...(Read Full Article)
