Posted on 02/03/2014 4:35:34 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
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It's about allowing self-important people to feel good about themselves.
Beavis (watching an awards show on TV): "What's with all these ribbons people are wearing?"
Butthead: "Uhhhh...that's so we'll know that they're famous." :)
Dance to the music.
Daniel nails this to the wall and hangs a picture on it.
So long as there is a vested interest in solving problems the problems will persist. Put another way, a bureaucracy's first imperative is to perpetuate itself. The welfare state creates poverty. More specifically, it creates dependency.
This is precisely why the Founders precluded federal government from any involvement whatsoever in designing government structures to meet human needs. That the federal government now has invested most of its political capital in such ventures demonstrates its complete break from the Constitution that brought it into existence.
Nor is the federal government capable of reforming itself. It must be dismantled and a new government must be established following precisely the dictates of the Constitution.
90% of the federal government exists outside the precise limits set by the Constitution governing its existence. This is why liberals, progressives, Marxists,fascists, socialists, whatever, preach the abandonment of the Constitution. It does not serve their vision of a government run society.
That history has proven the fallacy of a government dominated society is irrelevant to those vested in government authority over everything. Reestablishing Constitutional government requires divesting statists of their power.
It just gets better and better!
Thank You, Louis for your daily posting of Daniel!
This.
Buying a homeless man a sandwich for two dollars is a direct investment of resources. Appropriating twenty billion dollars to feed a sandwich to every homeless man in America will feed sandwiches to a small percentage of the homeless at a cost of four thousand dollars a sandwich.
Truly, this is one of the more insightful statements I've read on FR in a long, long time.
This is also applicable to the so called illegal immigration problem in this country.
By skimming off the most industrious individuals in central and south American countries, we cripple their economies.
The industrious workers stay in this country, live on our welfare, and send their earnings back to their native country to allow their relatives to live on "extended" welfare. There is no motivation for the native country to get on their feet.
And meanwhile we are going bankrupt as a nation. All for the sake of being humane and caring.
One of many essays by Daniel that knock it out of the park.
Was that picture taken during a Planned Parenthood fundraiser?
“Nor is the federal government capable of reforming itself. It must be dismantled and a new government must be established following precisely the dictates of the Constitution.”
True. The first they teach you in Govt 105 in college is that the beauracracy is a self feeding mechanism.
If you have any doubt about the above theory then name a GOP candidate for President who could bring themselves to name even one agency of the US govt that needed to be shuttered? Only one, Newt Gingrich.
When the Republicans talk about reducing the size of governemnt they don’t really mean it.
100% correct as usual, Daniel
This one's amazing.
Yep, if you look up 'insightful' in the dictionary this statement's part of the definition... He's that good.
Ping - this one’s insightful..
One of the dumber ideas I've seen @ Starbux.
LOL!!
Marvin Olasky in his book The Tragedy of American Compassion points out that when private charity, which insisted upon personal interaction with recipients in order to determine who were truly needy and who expressed a willingness to work their way out of poverty, became replaced by state-sponsored indiscriminate charity "pauperism" increased.
He cites Edward L. Pierce, secretary of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities in the late 1800's who "showed that 'a large proportion of the outdoor relief, sometimes one-half, is distributed to those who stand in no need of it, and is therefore worse than wasted.' Even those who did need some help, he added, were being led into a very harmful addiction...Pierce concluded that the poor were developing 'exaggerated notions of their claims to support. An analyst for the Associated Charities of Boston similarly noted the birth of 'a dependent feeling, a dry rot, which leads the recipient of city bounty to look upon it as something due as a reward for desititution."
Whole countries are now suffering from the malady, as Greenfield points out.
The genius of American technosocical literature, Michael Crichton, explored this theme ten years ago in State of Fear, which was about the huge "non-profit" industry built on the false premises of the global warming mythos.
It's the old Soviet problem. The producers have no interest in producing anything. The aid recipients, distributors and providers have achieved a dysfunctional equilibrium. The system is broken, but everyone has learned their roles within the broken system.
If the system changes, they will all have to get jobs. It was that inertia which kept the USSR going long after its leaders stopped caring about the ravings of Marx, Lenin and Stalin. It took the energy of a younger generation that had yet to become invested in the system to topple it and it is the older generation that is most likely to march with portraits of Communist leaders and kiss them for the cameras.
You can buy a homeless man a sandwich, but you can't buy them all sandwiches because once you do that, you are no longer engaging in a personal interaction, but building an organization and the organization perpetuates itself.
You don't need a homeless man to exist so that you can buy him a sandwich, but once an agency exists that is tasked with buying homeless men sandwiches, it needs the homeless men to exist as 'clients' so that it can buy them sandwiches - and buy itself steak dinners.
Check out article.
Thanks, GOPJ.
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