Last week ur-blogger Jerry Pournelle wrote: The way out of our economic problems is increased production. Its a lot easier to divide up a big pie than a small pie. Socialism only works if theres very high production, enough so that the people willing to work hard are able to produce enough to keep those who want to consume hard without doing a lot of work if not satisfiedmy experience is that the non-productive consumers will always find leaders willing to demand more and moreat least out of the