Once a myth gets firmly established, you’ll play like hell to correct the popular falsehood. Here’s one. We are said to use only 10% of our brain. It isn’t true. Neurologist Barry Gordon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine says “… we use virtually every part of the brain, and that [most of] the brain is active almost all the time” (Read about it here).
The myth-making potential of human beings was fully on display as I was listening this morning to Rush Limbaugh. I normally don’t tune into the program but just happened to take a listen. At that moment, a caller was describing how a Californian could exploit the mandates and tax breaks to pay nothing for their electricity. Limbaugh was initially caught flat-footed. Then during a break he uncovered the reality of the scam. And so can anyone if they apply your brain.
The flim-flam is another rendition of the shell game. Like the peanut under the walnut shell, socialist governments move the community’s wealth around to create the illusion of getting something for nothing for a favored segment of the population. If the recipients far outnumber the coerced givers, you’ll run into Margaret Thatcher’s maxim: “‘The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”. In other words, borrowing another epigram from Economics 101: “There is no such thing as a free lunch” (known by the acronym TINSTFL).
The state’s commissars use the smoke and mirrors of their laws to fabricate a distorted market. Artificial demand is concocted by ordering home builders and home buyers to install and buy the greenie equipment, or else pay the government-created and extortionate electricity rates. It’s like paying protection money. The costs are hidden by piling them onto the backs of taxpayers through subsidies and tax breaks, and forcing them onto the utility companies’ bottom line.
No wonder the state’s grid is deteriorating into a public hazard.
RogerG