We Need A Rest From Too Much Government

The Times, via Lord Elvis: Head of the IMF fears civil unrest:

Violent unrest may be sparked around the world by a prolonged global slump unless governments act with greater urgency to jump-start stalled economies, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.

Massive unemployment, thousands of businesses bankrupt, thousands of homes repossessed, thousands of people homeless while all those buildings lie empty, high taxes lined up for the future, more draconian and undemocratic legislation in the pipeline both from the EU and our own government, ID cards and state databases still in preparation, tasers issued to the police, more fines, commodity prices going up, wages going down, people taking paycuts, the likelihood of power blackouts or rationing, a pampered and out-of-touch political class, pensions in ruins, savings wiped out, a Mickey Mouse education system...

What we're all suffering from is too much government - too much inept, corrupt and dictatorial government, and too little democracy, too little trust, too little freedom. Government, bureaucrats, big business and financiers have cosied up together in a big anti-democratic club to stitch things up for their own benefit at our expense. The results are proving to be catastrphic, at every level of life. And the mess is only just starting.

Civil unrest? Surely not.