Our high school senior did a research project on redistribution last year, and became very interested in the subject.
Now she is doing a college research paper on cause-effect. My assignment for her is to trace the cause and effect of free money, goods and services for the ‘poor’ and the ‘disabled’ on the family, the economy and the moral/ethical heart of our country.
Having done her research, she is so stricken, she is ready to run for Congress a few yards to the right of the TEA party.
“Now she is doing a college research paper on cause-effect. My assignment for her is to trace the cause and effect of free money, goods and services for the poor and the disabled on the family, the economy and the moral/ethical heart of our country.”
I encourage her to diagram such a complex model using a systems dynamics diagram like those in the book, Business Dynamics, by John Sterman. The kinds of relationships she is looking at are very hard to visualize. These diagrams were most likely created by leftists for leftists but I find them excellent tools for “discovering” how conservatism is a sustainable way to organize a societal system and leftism is an unsustainable, misery-producing system.