Stop-and-Frisk: How Government Creates Problems, Then Makes

http://reason.com/archives/2013/08/18/s ... creates-pr


"Two recent law-enforcement decisions illustrate yet again that when government sets out to solve a problem it created, things get much worse."...


..."In a free society, government has no business telling us what we can and can’t ingest or inject. Before drug prohibition, America had no drug problem. It’s prohibition that created the problem, just as alcohol prohibition gave America organized crime on a large scale. As we’ve seen, when government tries to ban drugs, it creates bigger problems by putting drugs in the streets and gangs in control.

Ask yourself why after so many decades of apparent failure — drugs are plentiful, accessible, and inexpensive — prohibition persists, as if spending more taxpayer dollars or coming up with some new law-enforcement gimmick will bring success. Maybe prohibition has not failed at all. Maybe the purpose is simply to spend the money and expand law enforcement. Maybe all the moralizing is simply a ruse.

And maybe what Thomas Paine said about wars also applies to the war on drugs: “a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.”

Might that not also be true of the "War on Poverty" we've been "fighting" for the last 50 years which has resulted in the Union accumulating over $16 Trillion in debt and about 8x that amount in unfunded liabilities for the welfare subsidies enacted by the national Congress?

Perhaps C.S. Lewis said it best when he wrote, "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."

In our case, progress could very well be stripping the federal government of all the power it has usurped over the last century and returning the responsibility for the welfare of the individuals to the levels of government to which it rightfully belongs, local and State, and having the federal level return to focusing on the tasks that it was created to look after instead of the ones it chose to insert itself into.

Welfare needs to be restructured as a hand up rather than a hand out. Spend some money towards education trying to get people off of the welfare roles and you won't have to pay for them for a lifetime and all of their children's lifetimes. Bargain.

We are from the Government and we are here to help. LOL

towermonkey wrote: Welfare needs to be restructured as a hand up rather than a hand out. Spend some money towards education trying to get people off of the welfare roles and you won't have to pay for them for a lifetime and all of their children's lifetimes. Bargain.

Its a total non issue, welfare payments affect only 1 percent of the federal budget. Are you kidding me TM? ALL OF OUR MONEY GOES TO DEFENSE, INTEREST ON DEFENSE SPENDING, DEFENSE PENSIONS, THE NSA,TSA, FBI, DEA, ATF, CIA, HOMELAND SECURITY AND ALL THE OTHER SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS!

Like we need this much security? And our military industrial complex owned media has even halfway normal people saying stupid stuff like

"Oh welfare needs to be restructured as a hand up rather than a hand out"

Wake the F up TM-Welfare is a non issue


http://salt.claretianpubs.org/issues/we ... avids.html

Vice Lord wrote:

towermonkey wrote: Welfare needs to be restructured as a hand up rather than a hand out. Spend some money towards education trying to get people off of the welfare roles and you won't have to pay for them for a lifetime and all of their children's lifetimes. Bargain.

Its a total non issue, welfare programs cost a total of $24 billion annually and welfare payments affect only 1 percent of the federal budget. Are you kidding me TM? ALL OF OUR MONEY GOES TO DEFENSE, INTEREST ON DEFENSE SPENDING, DEFENSE PENSIONS, THE NSA,TSA, FBI, DEA, ATF, CIA, HOMELAND SECURITY AND ALL THE OTHER SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS!

Like we need this much security? And our military industrial complex owned media has even halfway normal people saying stupid stuff like

"Oh welfare needs to be restructured as a hand up rather than a hand out"

Wake the F up TM-Welfare is a non issue


http://salt.claretianpubs.org/issues/we ... avids.html

Are you really that ignorant, or do you just play a moron on message boards?

Federal welfare spending has grown by 32 percent over the past four years, fattened by President Obama’s stimulus spending and swelled by a growing number of Americans whose recession-depleted incomes now qualify them for public assistance, according to numbers released Thursday.

Federal spending on more than 80 low-income assistance programs reached $746 billion in 2011, and state spending on those programs brought the total to $1.03 trillion , according to figures from the Congressional Research Service and the Senate Budget Committee.

That makes welfare the single biggest chunk of federal spending — topping Social Security and basic defense spending.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... /?page=all

All lies! and social security is not spending, its a trust fund- You fell for all the Right Wing accounting bullsh#t..Social Security, Medicade, Student Ad etc..etc..etc..Are NOT WALFARE! Everything spent here in America on "we the people" is not walfare...Were do you want our tax money spent anyway Rick? Money spent here in America for Americans shoul;d be close to 100% in my opinion

You wanna fight Rick?

4pm, Wed. self serve car wash Aspen Park- Be there or STFU

Vice Lord wrote: Al lies!

You wanna fight Rick?

4pm, Wed. self serve car wash Aspen Park- Be there or STFU

I've never hit a girl in my life and I won't start now.

Rick wrote:

Vice Lord wrote: Al lies!

You wanna fight Rick?

4pm, Wed. self serve car wash Aspen Park- Be there or STFU

I've never hit a girl in my life and I won't start now.

Well, are you coming there to watch me stuff OtisPTurdwater head first into a garbage can there on Wed.? He challenged me to a fight

Vice Lord wrote:

towermonkey wrote: Welfare needs to be restructured as a hand up rather than a hand out. Spend some money towards education trying to get people off of the welfare roles and you won't have to pay for them for a lifetime and all of their children's lifetimes. Bargain.

Its a total non issue, welfare programs cost a total of $24 billion annually and welfare payments affect only 1 percent of the federal budget. Are you kidding me TM? ALL OF OUR MONEY GOES TO DEFENSE, INTEREST ON DEFENSE SPENDING, DEFENSE PENSIONS, THE NSA,TSA, FBI, DEA, ATF, CIA, HOMELAND SECURITY AND ALL THE OTHER SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS!

Like we need this much security? And our military industrial complex owned media has even halfway normal people saying stupid stuff like

"Oh welfare needs to be restructured as a hand up rather than a hand out"

Wake the F up TM-Welfare is a non issue


http://salt.claretianpubs.org/issues/we ... avids.html

No argument about defense spending but you are a few dollars off on Welfare spending:

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/yea ... 40#usgs302

$574 Billion for 2013 but projected to drop for the next few years.