The First Government Intervention By Don Cooper
(2009-12-17 at 19:16:33 )

The First Government Intervention by Don Cooper

There was once a small village in the heart of country US called
village A. Village A was the source of a river that flowed to another
small village, village B. Both village A and village B had all the fresh
water supply that they needed.

There was another village though, village C, that did not live near a
river so they got the government to reroute the river running between
village A and village B to run through village C as well. Even though the
project was drastically over budget and schedule it was eventually
completed and the government was hailed as good and righteous.
Unfortunately, the government did not know that village C sat right on
top of a fault line. One day the fault moved and opened up a large hole
in the earth right underneath the river cutting off the water supply to
both village C and village B.

The government wasted no time addressing the crisis: they jumped into
action to repair the hole under the river at village C but until they
could finish they had to find a way to supply village B and village C
with fresh water so they hired a crew from village A to carry water from
a lake miles away that was supplying fresh water to village D. Even
though the project was drastically over budget and schedule and some of
the people contracted to carry the water were eventually convicted of
fraud for charging the government for work they did not do and some
government employees were found to be complicit in the fraudulent
activities village B and village C did once again have fresh water and
the government was hailed as good and righteous.

After a few weeks fresh water from the village D lake was running low so
the government commissioned a firm to dig a well to supply village D with
water. Even though the project was drastically over budget and schedule
and some of the people contracted to dig the well were eventually
convicted of fraud for charging the government for work they did not do
and some government employees were found to be complicit in the
fraudulent activities and the head of the government was impeached but
did not have to leave office the well was completed and village D once
again had fresh water and the government was hailed as good and righteous.

Then one day the well dug to supply fresh water to village D went dry and
the government leapt into action and commissioned an environmental group
to find out why the well went dry. In the end the group published a 2000
page report stating the well went dry because the people in village D
drank all the water in it and the government was hailed as good and
righteous.

To address the problem of the people of village D drinking all the water
in their well the leaders of village D were arrested and tried for
misallocation of resources and sentenced to life in prison.

Meanwhile the people of villages B, C and D, being without water, all
immigrated to village A since the hole in the earth beneath the river in
village C had yet to be repaired and village A was the only village with
fresh water.

After a while the influx of people into village A caused the water supply
to run out so the government leapt into action: they began borrowing
water from country THEM.

After a while the demands for water in country US could not be met by
borrowing water only from country THEM so country US began borrowing
water from other countries as well.

One day country THEM demanded that all their water be paid back with
interest. Country US refused and invaded country THEM in order to
install a government that would be more agreeable to the country US
policy of taking and not giving.

Some of the people of country THEM resented the fact that country US
had invaded their country and they fought back. Country US did not like
this so they sent more people to country THEM to fight against the
"Insurgents" leaving the repair project of the river in village C
undermanned.

Meanwhile the fighting in country THEM was disrupting the shipping of
water to country US so the US government, seeing the crisis, decided
to make its own water from hydrogen and oxygen.

The plan was to produce water and dig artificial rivers to carry the
government produced water to villages, A, B, C and D.

Since new rivers were being dug, there was no reason to continue the
repair project on the natural river going through village C so that
project was abandoned. Even though the artificial river project was
drastically over budget and schedule and some of the people contracted to
build it were eventually convicted of fraud for charging the government
for work they did not do and some government employees were found to be
complicit in the fraudulent activities and the head of the government was
impeached, again, but did not have to leave office, again, the government
US completed its new artificial river infrastructure which successfully
supplied water to all four villages and the government was hailed as
good and righteous

Unfortunately, all the people in country US had already died of thirst.

December 15, 2009

Don Cooper is a Florida native, Navy veteran, economist, and editor of
the daily non-partisan column Qaoss.com.

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