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Social engineering: National suicide
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 11/29//08 | Henry Lamb

Posted on 11/29/2008 1:32:30 AM PST by JohnHuang2

Social engineering by government always ends in disaster.

Social engineering occurs when government passes laws and regulations that force citizens to behave the way government thinks they should behave. Prohibition is a great example of social engineering. In 1919, government decided that its citizens should not drink "intoxicating liquors." This "government-knows-best" idea produced more than a decade of lawlessness far worse than citizen intoxication. Prohibition was repealed in 1933.

Free people in a free market always produce the best products, most efficiently, at the lowest price. Every time government "engineering" intrudes into the market, products, efficiency, price – and consumers – ultimately suffer.

Social engineering is always proposed with the best of intentions and sold with grandiose utopian promises. The promises are rarely realized, and the unintended consequences are never anticipated.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho2008; henrylamb; socialengineering

1 posted on 11/29/2008 1:32:31 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Passing laws and regulations to make us behave the way those in power deem it desirable is bad enough, but when you add the use of our tax system to enforce the social engineering it is the worst of both worlds. And that's exactly where we find ourselves today.

The ability to take from us, at gunpoint if need be, should be reserved for the sole purpose of getting the resources necessary to do what government is Constitutionally permitted to perform. Period. No encouraging people to buy Hummers because they can treat them preferentially when it comes to paying their taxes. The list goes on and on.

Regaining control of our future must be a two-part project. The first is to STOP government at all levels from doing things the Founding Fathers had no idea would ever come under the control of government. The second is to restrict government's ability to seize the fruit of our labor.

2 posted on 11/29/2008 1:44:46 AM PST by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: JohnHuang2

I’ll have to read this later in the day. Looks interesting.


3 posted on 11/29/2008 1:56:08 AM PST by backtothestreets (My bologna has a first name, it's J-O-R-G-E)
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To: JohnHuang2
In 1919, government decided that its citizens should not drink "intoxicating liquors." This "government-knows-best" idea produced more than a decade of lawlessness far worse than citizen intoxication. Prohibition was repealed in 1933.

How true! And when will the government finally decriminalize the consumption of intoxicating plants?

Regards,

4 posted on 11/29/2008 1:56:12 AM PST by alexander_busek
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To: JohnHuang2

ping


5 posted on 11/29/2008 2:42:28 AM PST by XBob (Jail the employers of the INVADERS !!)
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To: JohnHuang2
One disagreement. You describe the economic impact and loss of freedom as “unanticipated consequences” but they are neither unintended nor unanticipated. The common element of all the “crises” cooked up by the Left is the usurpation of our freedoms. The Global Warming Crisis is simply the latest distractor in the never-ending march toward a dictatorship of the proletariat. The socialists I speak with today don't even attempt to hide the real purpose of their activism.
6 posted on 11/29/2008 2:56:50 AM PST by joeystoy
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To: JohnHuang2

btt


7 posted on 11/29/2008 4:50:43 AM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: JohnHuang2; metmom

It begins with the public schools. If people stopped thinking of public education as a reasonable and beneficial thing to which all are entitled, and started thinking of it as (and exposing it as) a form of welfare that should be opposed vigorously, we’d soon have a lot less liberalism in this country.
Repeat. Public education is a welfare program.

Search the keyword “homeschooling” if you want to get fired up for a good cause.


8 posted on 11/29/2008 4:53:58 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: alexander_busek

The “WAR’ on Drugs continues to be lost at great cost.

What a joke. A sad one.


9 posted on 11/29/2008 4:57:04 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Obozo.....friend of dictators and wannabee revoluuuushionaries !)
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To: jwparkerjr
"Passing laws and regulations to make us behave the way those in power deem it desirable is bad enough, but when you add the use of our tax system to enforce the social engineering it is the worst of both worlds. And that's exactly where we find ourselves today."

Which is one of the big reasons why we NEED TO PASS THE FAIR TAX

10 posted on 11/29/2008 5:27:24 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: donna; dragnet2; HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Free people in a free market always produce the best products, most efficiently, at the lowest price. Every time government "engineering" intrudes into the market, products, efficiency, price – and consumers – ultimately suffer.

Agree? Yes or no. Or do you need qualifiers.

11 posted on 11/29/2008 5:50:25 AM PST by LowCountryJoe (Do class-warfare and disdain of laissez-faire have their places in today's GOP?)
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To: joeystoy
The socialists I speak with today don't even attempt to hide the real purpose of their activism.

The scary part about that is that many will whine and complain, but there seems to be no outrage about the hubris of them as they telegraph their plans and we all sit by hoping it won't happen. It's either going to be very ugly or very pathetic when the American citizens actually get the full glimmer of what is going on.

12 posted on 11/29/2008 5:57:34 AM PST by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: jwparkerjr

Maybe I was wrong, but I thought both the prohibition and the end of prohibition was voted on by the citizens?????


13 posted on 11/29/2008 5:58:38 AM PST by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward--Anonymous))
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To: JohnHuang2
Scary Obama Tape
14 posted on 11/29/2008 6:39:48 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

re: Fair Tax

Amen! And while we’re about it, let’s throw in a balanced budget amendment AND a line item veto to sweeten the pot.

If we don’t find a way, well actually the will, to reign in government growth and spending we are on the downside of our history as the greatest nation in the history of the world.


15 posted on 11/29/2008 7:25:48 AM PST by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: JohnHuang2

16 posted on 11/29/2008 10:09:48 AM PST by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: DaveLoneRanger; 2Jedismom; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; Anima Mundi; Antoninus; arbooz; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.
17 posted on 11/29/2008 6:19:38 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: alexander_busek

“And when will the government finally decriminalize the consumption of intoxicating plants?”

They never will. There’s too much money in it. Both from a funding perspective but also from the corruption it breeds.


18 posted on 11/29/2008 6:23:36 PM PST by driftdiver (No More Obama! - The corruption has not changed despite all our hopes.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Agreed completely!


19 posted on 11/30/2008 6:12:14 AM PST by Darth Gill
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To: alexander_busek

20 posted on 11/30/2008 9:07:02 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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