H. L. Mencken once called politics the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Yup.....that's Liberalism.
Nothing could be more emblematic of the above than the design of Liberal welfare policy in our nation?
No, not to help the poor....it doesn't.
a. The percentage of those in 'poverty' is roughly the same today, trillions of dollars later, as when the 'War on Poverty' was instituted......a half century later.
b. If they try....Liberal creation has seen to it that as income of the poor rises, the loss of their welfare benefits is the same as a huge tax on their earnings.
c. Logic dictates that there must be some ulterior purpose to the program.
d. Oh....and analysis of the welfare reform under Clinton shows that conservative policy changes actually produces better results.....hmmmmm....
1. ".... the most dangerous element of the welfare state is not the fact that it spins up into increasing debt, but rather that it creates citizens who are unfit for democratic self-governance.
2. .... there have been numerous policy changes advocated by conservatives and libertarians ...that help to give more independence to the less fortunate. But ... the Left still operates on the premise that its approach to poverty is more morally sound.
3. The most radical solution to poverty advocated by those on the Right is the elimination of government welfare programs. ... this idea is met with violent opposition from those who fear that people will starve on the streets ....these objectors ignore the obvious fact that there was life before the welfare state.
However, the facts...support the conservative case that people don't have to be forced to be charitable.
a. ...there has always been a consensus in America that there is a duty to take care of the poor.... Unlike today, it was assumed that some people, given the choice to work or not, would choose sloth. This brought the necessity of distinguishing between those who were voluntarily poor and those who were merely affected by circumstance, so that attention could be focused on the temporarily downtrodden.
4... there were numerous charitable organizations ... the largest of which was the mutual aid society... primarily for lower- and middle-class workers, and provided benefits such as life insurance, health insurance, and retirement pensions. ....with particularly high participation rates among African-Americans and immigrants. Mutual aid societies were what Tocqueville had in mind when he praised the American reliance upon associations. Such organizations were a unique feature of democracy, and of people who took it upon themselves to attempt to alleviate the suffering of their neighbors rather than leaving that messy job to the state or to the wealthy.
a. The average life insurance policy of the largest aid societies in 1919 was $1,100, equivalent to the annual salary of the average American worker.
The Masons, for one, established their own old age homes for the elderly, spending an average of $1,800 per resident in 1914.
Aid societies were the largest suppliers of health insurance before the Great Depression, typically offering benefits ranging from $7 to $10 a week in case of illness. Unlike modern HMOs, there was a strong incentive not to cheat the system since false claims were easily recognized....
5. Church-based charity in America has always operated on the premise that the poor need spiritual guidance as much as material comfort, and attempted to provide both.
a. .... the federal job-training programs which have replaced these organizations have been, if anything, counterproductive. A six-year study by the U.S. Department of Labor in 1993 showed that young black males enrolled in federal job training actually had 10.7% lower earnings after the program than a control group that did not participate in job training."
The Yale Free Press
Over and over, Liberal policies have been shown to be detrimental to society, yet remain in perpetuity.
Why?
Yup.....that's Liberalism.
Nothing could be more emblematic of the above than the design of Liberal welfare policy in our nation?
No, not to help the poor....it doesn't.
a. The percentage of those in 'poverty' is roughly the same today, trillions of dollars later, as when the 'War on Poverty' was instituted......a half century later.
b. If they try....Liberal creation has seen to it that as income of the poor rises, the loss of their welfare benefits is the same as a huge tax on their earnings.
c. Logic dictates that there must be some ulterior purpose to the program.
d. Oh....and analysis of the welfare reform under Clinton shows that conservative policy changes actually produces better results.....hmmmmm....
1. ".... the most dangerous element of the welfare state is not the fact that it spins up into increasing debt, but rather that it creates citizens who are unfit for democratic self-governance.
2. .... there have been numerous policy changes advocated by conservatives and libertarians ...that help to give more independence to the less fortunate. But ... the Left still operates on the premise that its approach to poverty is more morally sound.
3. The most radical solution to poverty advocated by those on the Right is the elimination of government welfare programs. ... this idea is met with violent opposition from those who fear that people will starve on the streets ....these objectors ignore the obvious fact that there was life before the welfare state.
However, the facts...support the conservative case that people don't have to be forced to be charitable.
a. ...there has always been a consensus in America that there is a duty to take care of the poor.... Unlike today, it was assumed that some people, given the choice to work or not, would choose sloth. This brought the necessity of distinguishing between those who were voluntarily poor and those who were merely affected by circumstance, so that attention could be focused on the temporarily downtrodden.
4... there were numerous charitable organizations ... the largest of which was the mutual aid society... primarily for lower- and middle-class workers, and provided benefits such as life insurance, health insurance, and retirement pensions. ....with particularly high participation rates among African-Americans and immigrants. Mutual aid societies were what Tocqueville had in mind when he praised the American reliance upon associations. Such organizations were a unique feature of democracy, and of people who took it upon themselves to attempt to alleviate the suffering of their neighbors rather than leaving that messy job to the state or to the wealthy.
a. The average life insurance policy of the largest aid societies in 1919 was $1,100, equivalent to the annual salary of the average American worker.
The Masons, for one, established their own old age homes for the elderly, spending an average of $1,800 per resident in 1914.
Aid societies were the largest suppliers of health insurance before the Great Depression, typically offering benefits ranging from $7 to $10 a week in case of illness. Unlike modern HMOs, there was a strong incentive not to cheat the system since false claims were easily recognized....
5. Church-based charity in America has always operated on the premise that the poor need spiritual guidance as much as material comfort, and attempted to provide both.
a. .... the federal job-training programs which have replaced these organizations have been, if anything, counterproductive. A six-year study by the U.S. Department of Labor in 1993 showed that young black males enrolled in federal job training actually had 10.7% lower earnings after the program than a control group that did not participate in job training."
The Yale Free Press
Over and over, Liberal policies have been shown to be detrimental to society, yet remain in perpetuity.
Why?
