welfare state - buying your votes

found some neat little quotes regarding the welfare state and it's
fostering dependency.

guess who wrote it...

if it offends any socialist sensibilities, please feel free to refrain
from holding your breath until i apologize.

(being libertarian means never having to say you're sorry, don't ya
know)

also, i've still to get any socialist to take me up on the offer to
donate $100 to the charity of their choice if they can name just *one*
real right that a socialist would believe in that a libertarian would
not.

hell, they're too scared to even answer it, much less pose what they
would think of as a right. also remember that the definition of a
right would be one that is exercised without violating the rights of
another person (i.e. right to vote, right to free speech, right to
keep & bear arms, etc.)

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While freedom charities promote self-reliance, government welfare
programs foster dependency. In fact, it is in the self-interests of
the bureaucrats and politicians who control the welfare state to
encourage dependency. After all, when a private organization moves a
person off welfare, the organization has fulfilled its mission and
proved its worth to donors. In contrast, when people leave government
welfare programs, they have deprived federal bureaucrats of power and
of a justification for a larger amount of taxpayer funding.

=2E..the welfare state is incompatible with constitutional government
and a free society...

=2E..the popular myth that the welfare state was a natural outgrowth of
the Founding Fathers=92 conception of individual liberty. In fact, the
ideology behind the welfare state is a 180-degree turn from the
individualism embraced by the Founders. The men who led the American
Revolution and drafted the Constitution understood that people
flourish best under conditions of freedom =96 and that a centralized
state has neither the legitimate authority nor the competence to care
for the needy. Instead, the Founders realized that a state which
attempts to provide security will end up destroying both liberty and
the economic prosperity necessary to enhance individual security.



In contrast, the theoreticians of the welfare state believe that
people are incapable of improving their condition and would ultimately
become little more than pawns of the =93greedy capitalists=94 without the
sup****t of a wise and benevolent state. Of course, while
redistributionism and its nasty cousins =96 socialism, communism, and
fascism =96 have created many shortages, one thing it has produced in
abundance is power-hungry politicians eager to protect the people from
the forces of private greed!


aardvark