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Gov't Knows Best? White House creates 'nudge squad' to shape behavior
foxnews.com ^ | 7/30/13 | Maxim Lott

Posted on 07/30/2013 7:59:40 AM PDT by ColdOne

The federal government is hiring what it calls a "Behavioral Insights Team" that will look for ways to subtly influence people's behavior, according to a document describing the program obtained by FoxNews.com. Critics warn there could be unintended consequences to such policies, while supporters say the team could make government and society more efficient.

While the program is still in its early stages, the document shows the White House is already working on such projects with almost a dozen federal departments and agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.

"Behavioral sciences can be used to help design public policies that work better, cost less, and help people to achieve their goals," reads the government document describing the program, which goes on to call for applicants to apply for positions on the team.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2013; 201307; behaviormodification; bigbrother; nudgesquad; obamapropaganda; orwell; propaganda; propagandalegal; propagandateam
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To: ColdOne

The Creel Commission reborn.


21 posted on 07/30/2013 8:10:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: ColdOne

So, ‘nudge’ is a new word for ‘mind control’? These ‘nudges’ could become political very quickly.


22 posted on 07/30/2013 8:17:04 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: ColdOne
"Behavioral Insights Team"

this administration now has a brainwashing team for those working for the government?? Obozo hussein's fundamental transformation of the USA sadly continues.

23 posted on 07/30/2013 8:20:31 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: ColdOne

“1984” mind control.


24 posted on 07/30/2013 8:23:10 AM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: ColdOne

See “This Perfect Day” by Ira Levin...


25 posted on 07/30/2013 8:24:43 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: autumnraine

It is just freakin’ eerie. I cannot believe that many people are that stupid or just don’t care.


26 posted on 07/30/2013 8:26:06 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: ThomasMore

*Clockwork Orange *

You beat me to it.

“Not Ludwig!”


27 posted on 07/30/2013 8:28:11 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: ColdOne

I don’t know why they need one. They already shove crap down your throat anyway, whether we want it or not.


28 posted on 07/30/2013 8:30:50 AM PDT by knak (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Our public schools are to blame, IMHO. We should have been paying closer attention to what our children were being taught.

I’m grateful that most of my grandchildren are in good private schools.


29 posted on 07/30/2013 8:33:05 AM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: ColdOne
Resembles Russian KGB tactics.

Recommended reading ... two (1974 and 1985) "KGB" books by John Barron, a former US naval intelligence officer.

The 1974 edition led to his access to "many ordinarily inaccessible sources."

30 posted on 07/30/2013 8:34:45 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: autumnraine
We are living it and the ones who are awake are helpless to prevent what is happening.

And no amount of alcohol will make it go away, I'm finding.

31 posted on 07/30/2013 8:36:42 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: ColdOne
Bingo!  Okay boys, round this guy up...

LOL, well sorta...

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32 posted on 07/30/2013 8:44:10 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Kill the bill... Begin enforcing our current laws, signed by President Ronald Reagan.)
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To: ColdOne

We are just pieces of meat to be programmed, used and then disposed of as the state sees fit.


33 posted on 07/30/2013 8:48:43 AM PDT by henkster (The 0bama regime isn't a train wreck, it's a B 17 raid on the rail yard.)
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To: ColdOne

Haven’t they found out that when they give out the taxpayer $$ that most will do whatever the gov’t wants?

/so truthful the sarcasm hurts


34 posted on 07/30/2013 8:48:51 AM PDT by i_robot73 (We hold that all individuals have the Right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives - LP.org)
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To: ColdOne
This concept is laid out by Cass R. Sunstein. See the review of his book in the New York Review of Books:

"It’s For Your Own Good! Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism by Sarah Conly"

Warning; it will make your blood boil.

35 posted on 07/30/2013 8:49:04 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: rarestia

Yeah, me too.


36 posted on 07/30/2013 8:56:10 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: ColdOne

How long before the suggestions become laws, and the squads become armed?

“Ve shtronkly suggest you choose der arugula salat instead of another helpink of mashed potatoes!”

“Herr Obersturmfuhrer! He iss not choosing der argula!”

“Shoot him! It iss for his own gute.”


37 posted on 07/30/2013 8:59:12 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: ColdOne
The federal government is hiring what it calls a "Behavioral Insights Team" that will look for ways to subtly influence people's behavior, according to a document describing the program obtained by FoxNews.com. Critics warn there could be unintended consequences to such policies, while supporters say the team could make government and society more efficient.

Are they trying to breed the Master Race, or create the New Soviet Man?

38 posted on 07/30/2013 9:00:21 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ColdOne
is this for real?
39 posted on 07/30/2013 9:01:32 AM PDT by Drawn7979
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To: ArrogantBustard

“supporters say the team could make government and society more efficient”.

Want to make “gubmint” more efficient? Fire 90% of them.


40 posted on 07/30/2013 9:04:03 AM PDT by DaveA37
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