Archive for June 13th, 2009
Helping the homeless stay homeless
by Maddog on Jun.13, 2009, under Looters
Helping the homeless stay homeless, while subsidizing independently wealthy real estate speculators and rent seekers.
There is always going to be homeless because of mental illness, and to a lesser extent business failures. However in a free market where people are allowed to succeed or fail without government interference, those entrepreneurs learn from their mistakes and eventually pull themselves up by their bootstraps. The fiery furnace of the free market tempers the blade of innovation. Hence the allowance of those temporary failures eventually leads to a higher standard of living for the average member of civilization
Here is the problem. There are those who are using the government as a tool to guarantee profits and success for themselves. This eventually leads to a reduction in the standard of living for the average member of civilization as a whole.
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