Kick the can

A boy kicks a can down the road. Again and again, getting tired he kicks it a shorter distance each time. The economy is like that can. The boy kicks it a shorter distance because he is losing. If the distance remained same or if distance could increase he would not run out of road. The road ahead is being erased. The economy is sucked dry by government taxes. The boy comes to the end of the road-a brick wall. He is in prison. And those behind the wall-they have all the money and all the power. They tell him what to do as work, where to live and how long to live. And it is impossible to wrest the control from their hands.