Thursday, July 14, 2011

Another Look Inside The Liberal Mind

In a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Harvard professor Dr. David Ludwig proposed that the government should take obese children away from their parents. He co-wrote the article with lawyer/researcher Lindsey Murtagh of the Harvard School of Public Health.

OMG! Another example of liberals’ love of stateism, where liberals believe that the state can solve all problems great and small. That when faced with any problem, they believe the government will always make the best decision for everyone involved.

Clearly Dr. Ludwig and Mr./Ms. Murtagh believe that these awful parents should be relieved of their parental rights because they are allowing their children to become obese. Why that’s tantamount to burning them with cigarettes or shoving bamboo splinters under their fingernails! These people can’t be trusted with the raising of the next generation of government funders, oh, wait a minute, I mean citizens.

We have so many examples of where government intervention has worked out so well, like the government’s taking over of the social welfare system. Now we have gone from churches and other community groups working to assist individuals to get back on their feet to a government system where sloth is rewarded. A system where now we literally have multiple generations of families in the welfare system. Why? Because they are rewarded for not working! They receive housing, food stamps, utilities, etc., etc. so long as they remain unemployed. And how do they increase their income from the government? They increase the size of their brood, that is, so long as they are not married. Thanks to such thoughtful programs as ADC and the like, the more kids they have out of wedlock, the more money they receive from the all powerful state. And where does this money come from, why straight from the pockets of those who don’t count on the government for their living.

Now I’m not saying the thought behind the program was evil, but as often is the case, the law of unintended consequences has reared its ugly head. As the saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”

Most liberal programs are well intended enough. But when you try and impose an un-natural one size fits all solution to a problem, it predictably goes horribly wrong.

Let’s take another look at the government thinking they can solve all manner of problems. Let’s consider the Corps of Engineers (CoE) and their flood abatement programs.

Before the CoE got involved with the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, they would regularly flood. The waters would disperse over thousands or millions of acres. Normally not to any great depth, but flood they would. Those who would inhabit the areas would build their homes above the levels the rivers would rise to. Then along came the government and the CoE. They built damns and levies all along the rivers and told the folks they could control the flooding. And the silly people believed them.

So of course they built in the areas that had formerly flooded, because they were told that these areas were safe now. Then the inevitable happens, mother nature has a high snow winter, or a heavy rain spring. More so than the government and the CoE planned for. All of the water that would have spread out over millions of acres gets penned up behind damns and kept channeled in between levies. Since the water was not allowed to spread out like it was intended to, the levels rise higher and higher until it eventually and inevitably does, it breaks down the damns or levies and comes rushing over the land. Not with the slow gradual rise of water as nature had planned but in a torrent, destroying all of the stuff that the government had told the citizens was safe. Not to the depth of inches as it naturally would have done had it been allowed to spread out, but rather to the depth of feet and yards. All thanks to government knowing better.

And here we see it again. A couple of liberals believing that government knows best. That the government should take over the raising of these children because their parents have allowed them to eat too much or the wrong things, and quite probably, many of them have done so using the food stamps they got from the government in the first place.

Well, I say, “Get The Hell Out Of Our Lives And Get Back To Doing What Governments Should Be Doing!” And just what is that you may be asking. Well that’s just what the founding fathers laid out in the original documents. Protecting our Lives, our Liberties and our Property from loss due to force or fraud. That’s pretty much it. Period.

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