George Will: The harm incurred by a mushrooming welfare state

Washington Post ^ | January 21, 2015 | By George Will

[Travis McGee]

[bicyclerepair]

Who is John Galt.

[potlatch]

Good graphics Travis, they’ll go mad if and when that happens!

[Old Yeller]

As a white, Christian, heterosexual, conservative male in my 40’s am i eligible to collect?

Be glad you haven't been thrown into the concentration camp yet.

[randita]

Think of some good questions to get her thinking. Here are a few to start:

Does she think it’s fair that middle class people have to work not only to support their own families but also to support the families of others who won’t work?

Does she think that people who are able bodied but won’t work set a good example for their children?

Does she think self respect and dignity come from accepting handouts from others or that it comes from achieving success from the sweat of your own brow?

Does she think it’s acceptable that a person who won’t work receives government benefits that exceed what a full time average wage earner brings home?

[Senator_Blutarski]

...the weakening of America’s distinctive “conceptions of self-reliance, personal responsibility, and self-advancement,”...

Socialism is based on a false concept of human nature, which denies self interested behavior. That is why socialist states like the USSR, China, Cuba and the like ended up as totalitarian states.

The "people's revolution" has to be forced upon the masses at the point of a gun. Which is, of course, why liberals hate having citizens own guns. Socialists want to ensure only the government has guns. Which, of course, explains the body counts in the USSR, China and Cuba.

[Savage Beast]

You are absolutely right.

You are right to weep too.

It would be easier for Europe to expelled the Muslims than for America to overcome the forces of evil that are destroying her.

[oldbill]

Curiously, George Will sees no problem with amnesty for 11-20 million illegals who will go straight onto the welfare rolls.

[ripley]

“...sees no problem with amnesty for 11-20 million illegals who will go straight onto the welfare rolls.”

They’re not illegals. They’re an occupying force that needs to be clothed, fed and cared for so that they can take part in the subversion of the vote.

IMHO

[Travis McGee]

That’s my fear. Two weeks without food deliveries and our cities may be in flames.

[MrB]

Those are good though provoking questions,
but like most sheeperal, she doesn’t want to be “thought-provoked”.

Her advocacy is her righteousness,
and pointing out failures in what she advocates for
is a direct, personal attack on that righteousness.

[randita]

Too bad she probably wouldn't be open to reading "When Helping Hurts" or "Toxic Charity". What those books point out clearly is that a lot of the "help" we extend to others is based on what WE think they should have rather than what they really need. Also, it's done to assuage our own consciences rather than being based on results (i.e. "our intentions are good and that's all that's important")

Sowell's book "The Vision of the Anointed" is also great and also Olasky's "The Tragedy of American Compassion".

[MrB]

Those are great, and I’ve read most of them,
but, like I said,

most sheeperal DON’T WANT TO KNOW
that the policies they advocate actually hurt people.

[potlatch]

You’re right and it may start much sooner than two weeks in “certain groups”. Ferguson, for example. The minute they start hitting a number of stores, and getting EBT failures, they will go crazy!

[Travis McGee]

Yes, and by two weeks it will be universal, as the early looters will inspire the future looters to get there first or miss out. It accelerates in one direction.

[potlatch]

Beyond frightening - especially for my kids. Take care!