Originally posted by Wheatfield I wonder if Mike feels that these people should be culled out like downer cattle, preferably before they spread their bad genes to another generation of drug addicted pseudo people.
Load em in cattle cars and send em to the ovens, those useless wastes of flesh.
But that would mean Big Government - as he says, these are lifestyle choices, and if we remove moral hazard from
all lifestyle choices, why, then people will be incentivized to choose the correct ones.
Another idea would be for churches and private enterprises to set up work-indoctrination camps to provide correct thinking patterns to those who wish to avail themselves. Once more, this should not be state run, as that is counter to our liberties.
The unfortunate fact is that there will always be those who fail, and there will never be anything the state can do - without severe harm to overall society - to change that. There is no need to blow this up to be inclusive of everyone who is unemployed currently: obviously there are lots of people who want to work and should be provided the opportunity to work. The problem is that due to income transfer, regulation, lack of tort reform, and an overly large government, these jobs are not being created by the private sector -and due to overly generous unemployment and welfare assistance, many are dis-inclined to find work.
Clearly there will be economic cycles where jobs are eliminated; however the bounce back of the economy is only hindered by inept Keynsean policies and misplaced 'humanitarian' aid.