Welfare and Disincentives to Work

http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/-alexander-presentation_10063532278.pdf

Capitalism - Fuck, yeah!

Even if it wished to, the government could not capture America’s wealth from its 1 percent of the 1 percent. As Marxist despots and tribal socialists from Cuba to Greece have discovered to their huge disappointment, governments can neither create wealth nor effectively redistribute it. They can only expropriate and watch it dissipate. If we continue to harass, overtax, and oppressively regulate entrepreneurs, our liberal politicians will be shocked and horrified to discover how swiftly the physical tokens of the means of production dissolve into so much corroded wire, abandoned batteries, scrap metal, and wasteland rot.


https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/312376/unleash-mind

Stimulus: Not Working Worldwide

http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444873204577537244225685010.html?mg=reno-wsj

The Moral Foundations of Progressivism

The reason why the ideological bubble of mainstream liberalism is so resistant to being punctured is that it is part of a moral bubble: an unchallenged belief in the morality of welfare-state altruism. In the altruist worldview, supporting yourself and providing for your own needs has no moral significance, but providing for the needs of others makes you virtuous. And the best position of all is to be the middleman distributing those handouts from the haves to the have-nots. It doesn't require you to sacrifice your own prosperity, but it still gives you the moral high ground of being the agent for the redistribution of wealth.


This is the way the welfare-state altruist "cares." He cares about you in the impersonal way he cares about a famine in Africa. It's just another excuse to raise some money and send it off to be spent on a program that may or may not work (foreign aid is another great example of money spent with very little regard for results) and to skim off a comfortable salary made all the more comfortable by a smug sense of moral superiority.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/16/the_washington_dc_bubble_115129.html

How Nice People Crush Freedom

 

http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2012/03/28/obamacare-how-nice-people-crush-freedom/?singlepage=true

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.