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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 Prohibition was repealed in 1933.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
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.
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posted on
11/29/2008 1:44:46 AM PST
by
jwparkerjr
(God Bless America!)
To: JohnHuang2
I’ll have to read this later in the day. Looks interesting.
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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)
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,
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
11/29/2008 2:42:28 AM PST
by
XBob
(Jail the employers of the INVADERS !!)
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.
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posted on
11/29/2008 2:56:50 AM PST
by
joeystoy
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
11/29/2008 4:50:43 AM PST
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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.
To: alexander_busek
The “WAR’ on Drugs continues to be lost at great cost.
What a joke. A sad one.
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posted on
11/29/2008 4:57:04 AM PST
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(Obozo.....friend of dictators and wannabee revoluuuushionaries !)
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
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posted on
11/29/2008 5:27:24 AM PST
by
Apple Pan Dowdy
(... as American as Apple Pie)
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.
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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?)
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.
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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))
To: jwparkerjr
Maybe I was wrong, but I thought both the prohibition and the end of prohibition was voted on by the citizens?????
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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))
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
11/29/2008 6:39:48 AM PST
by
Bon mots
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.
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posted on
11/29/2008 7:25:48 AM PST
by
jwparkerjr
(God Bless America!)
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
11/29/2008 10:09:48 AM PST
by
rhema
("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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.
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posted on
11/29/2008 6:19:38 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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.
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posted on
11/29/2008 6:23:36 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(No More Obama! - The corruption has not changed despite all our hopes.)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
To: alexander_busek
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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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