Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete?
Why would he think that?
Posted on 06/06/2016 11:09:07 AM PDT by jazusamo
Among the many disturbing signs of our times are conservatives and libertarians of high intelligence and high principles who are advocating government programs that relieve people of the necessity of working to provide their own livelihoods.
Generations ago, both religious people and socialists were agreed on the proposition that "he who does not work, neither shall he eat." Both would come to the aid of those unable to work. But the idea that people who simply choose not to work should be supported by money taken from those who are working was rejected across the ideological spectrum.
How we got to the present situation is a long story, but the painful fact is that we are here now. Among the leading minds of our times, including Charles Murray today and the late and great Milton Friedman earlier, there have been proposals for ways of subsidizing the poor without the suffocating distortions of the government's welfare state bureaucracy.
Professor Friedman's plan for a negative income tax to help the poor has already been put into practice. But, contrary to his intention to have this replace the welfare state bureaucracy, it has been simply tacked on to all the many other government programs, instead of replacing them.
It is not inevitable that the same thing will happen to Charles Murray's plan, but I would bet the rent money that there would be the same end result.
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Hey, look; it’s not my problem.
Oh we still agree on that, the socialists just won't SAY IT until they are in power.
Then ... does anyone remember the term 'forced labor camps'?
There are owners and there are renters....
In an outburst of common sense, the Swiss just voted “no” to this.
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Not only No, but Hell, No!!
The last numbers that I saw were 78-22 against.
The last numbers that I saw were 78-22 against.
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It would be close to 50-50 in the U.S.
I saw that, good for the Swiss.
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Dangerous Donald Trump
Thomas Sowell
Posted: Apr 05, 2016
“There are signs that some people are belatedly waking up to the dangers that Donald Trump represents. We can only hope that the voters in Wisconsin are among them — and that voters in New York, California and elsewhere wake up before it is too late.”
“Those who do not work shall not eat” is not some socialist call to live up to your ability and get ahead on the job but a call to be marched out into the fields to work with guns pointed at your head.
And who is Dr. Sowell recommending for the top job???
Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete?
Why would he think that?
“And who is Dr. Sowell recommending for the top job???”
He is probably a Jebster
But Jeb doesn’t have the nomination. He’s losing it...
No, but the left is doing all it can to eliminate personal responsibility.
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