Welfare, Public Policy, And Restraining Orders
{Porter Stansberry a financial writer had this to say about do-gooders: “Good intentions, along with her handmaidens, hypocrisy and envy, are the most rightfully despised of all human characteristics}. Those who lie are generally interesting. Fools can be somewhat amusing. And a greedy man can make you rich, but only by mistake or chance. However the do-gooder is generally boring and oftentimes a tyrant. Good intentions along with envy, hypocrisy, and handmaidens are the most regretted of human behavior. Liars are, usually, interesting. Fools can be very entertaining. And a greedy man can make you rich, but only by mistake or chance. However the do-gooder is generally boring and oftentimes a tyrant.
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LBJ was your average do-gooder with a goal of solving people’s financial issues here in the U.S. What LBJ ended up doing in the 1960’s, with his social programs, was to destroy the nuclear family by replacing the father as the breadwinner and replacing it with the government. His welfare program subsidized illegitimacy and divorce creating a matriarchal relationship with its citizens now reliant on government handouts. It was not poverty that destroyed the lower-class, it was the poor policy of giving government money to women who had children out of wedlock forever making the father irrelevant in women’s lives and encouraging the use of restraining orders.
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In 1996 Bill Clinton reformed welfare laws with the “Welfare Reform Act” which encouraged welfare recipients to get jobs or job training, to make themselves self-sufficient, and to end their long-term dependency on government. It was a huge success as it dropped the amount of people on welfare and it forced people to take more initiative in their lives. Now in 2009 we have the Obama Stimulus that plans to increase the taxpayers’ money that the federal government gives to the states for welfare, and reverses incentives by giving bonuses to states that put more people on welfare. This last sentence is shocking: The U.S. federal government is going to give bonuses to states to increase the amount of people on welfare. The only reasonable outcome is more families will accept welfare. Some claim that the current stimulus package will be worse than the Great Society policies of the 1960s because of the money involved.
Restraining Orders work in the same way. The federal government pays more federal funds to sates that increase the amount of restraining orders year over year. With the creation of the Violence Against Women’s Act, what began as a movement by “do-gooders” in an attempt to help abused women is now used as a way for states to profit.
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Tags: child custody, divorce, restraining order
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