[Louis Foxwell]

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[Bratch]

It's not about saving the world.

It's about allowing self-important people to feel good about themselves.

[Louis Foxwell]

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.

[oldbrowser]

An aid economy works a lot like a regular economy except that it can't sustain domestic production or domestic experts. Its doctors are trained by Western countries and stay there instead of going back home.

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.

[GeronL]

100% correct as usual, Daniel

[GOPJ]

The aid economy of the underprivileged is the smaller half of the overall aid economy. The biggest piece of the aid economy is in the hands of the aid organizations that profit from an unsolvable problem that, all their fundraising brochures to the contrary, they have no interest in solving because it would remove their reason for existing. Africa's misery is their wealth.

This one's amazing.

[GOPJ]

Ping - this one’s insightful..

[martin_fierro]

One of the dumber ideas I've seen @ Starbux.

[Albion Wilde]

"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."

LOL!!

[hosepipe]