From Social Security to Food Benefits, It’s Welfare Gone Wild
“We can not blame the politicians for what we let them get away with”
It is a good point, but often we elect the politicians and then they do what they want to, not what the people want and not what the country needs. They get 2-6 years to mess things up and how many more years does it take to undo the mess they make with their arrogance and stupidity? One voter error is of course re-electing those that refuse to listen and think they know what we need better than we do. The voters in many cases do not understand that every piece of legislation is to some extent a loss of freedom, whether it be freedom of choice or freedom of movement or whether it limits our options. The voters are told that in the name of freedom their freedoms are being taken away, and the voters just don’t get it. Th voters do not understand that everything that is done has impacts, some known, but many unknown and unintended. Unknown, unintended impacts can be good and bad, and many take a long time to manifest themselves. Th problem is that those who tell us they know what is best are in fact saying that they know the future. They do not know the future. The best they can do is make guesses based on the past, and based on assumptions projected from the past. Being close is not good enough, because even small differences between the forecast and the actual events of the future will have enormous impacts. Social Security and other going-broke programs are nothing more than a combination of pyramid schemes and central planning that is sure to fail. Using the same failed methods to “fix” them will just not work.
