>>But, if we want them done, we should be willing to pay what these things actually cost. If we're not willing to do so, then we don't really want them.
I'm not even sure why some of these people tolerate it. Lack of leadership? Fear of joining the dispossessed? We forget how reliant we are on civic obedience: 10,000 fit young people deciding that physical strength matters more than pieces of paper and that possession is 9/10 of their version of law would need a full scale National Guard deployment to contain. And since few people in the Guard are part of the 1%, eventually sympathies change and the Army no longer is a protective force for vested interest. What then?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
