The "Gift" After Breaking the Leg

The government and liberals often call for the state to "aid" people through public programs. But what truly constitutes aid?

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The reason so many Americans are reliant on public programs - one in seven Americans, say, currently receive food stamps - is because it is government programs that have made them dependent in the first place. Take food stamps? Why is it that so many Americans require food stamps? Much of it is because food is artificially high due to a series of state controls on how much farms can produce, price fixing, farms subsidies, tariffs if not bans on imports which drive prices up.

If we had a free market food market Americans could more easily afford their meals and the bar for food stamps would be much more lower.

But the government first engages in this intervention in the market and disrupts it - and it also is part of the 'socialism for the rich' whereby wealthy farmers benefit greatly in this nexus of state corruption - and this leads to price increases. And then the same government feigns indignation that people made frail would have a hard time buying foods and masks compassion and calls for offering "aid". An economist likened this process to someone breaking your leg and then calling it compassion to give you crutches. It certainly is a sterling job!

Let the state cease with the breaking of legs! Instead of being have to resort to requisition of crutches. But politicians often want people to gnaw on their dross and call it "constituent service" or "compassion" or "gifts" in the name of upholding their constituents' interests.

When a government convinces a people that their dependence is actually a "gift" to them that will be the death knell of a free society. Do not be intimidated by the state's phalanx of welfare agents, but choose the route of independence, self-reliance and self-respect.