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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (62338)	2/19/2013 12:52:46 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) of 71588

"the burden of excessive government always falls heaviest on the poor. Not in wallet extractions, but in lost opportunities." One of the reasons I suspect that the wealthy have done relatively better recently is because technology has made more information available for those who know how to extract it. Couple that with the lower barriers to multinational investing and you have those who know how to make money making a lot more of it. The poor are not motivated to take advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities like they were when there were no large employers and no strings free welfare. The poor are not faring as badly as you think, often the working poor have greater disposable income than their bosses because of government subsidies. "Reductions in productive activity by transferring from the generative sector diminishes employment chances and reduces availability of affordable goodies. Resources to help the truly needy are stretched, and in medical care are indeed leading to death panels" Absolutely, government regulations diminish productivity. Unions reduce productivity. Subsidies massively reduce productivity. The very people who are less productive don't understand they are hurting themselves. Increased demand for subsidized healthcare simply stretches available resources which necessitates rationing of health care. One method of rationing is extended waiting periods. Another form is denied coverage. One of the forms of denied coverage is best described as a death panel. Granny is too old for that procedure; would you like help pushing her off the cliff? "providing "free" plunder to the indigents they help create. Tocqueville and Hayek long ago noted the corrosive effect that has on character. Charles Murray is another explaining contemporary malodorous results that stretch over generations when creating a dependent class." Philosophers and other free thinkers have observed the cancerous effects of creating a dependent class for a very long time. The saying "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime." is very old. The Founding Fathers knew of the tendency for governments to develop useless layers of bureaucracy and tried to prevent it. "The innocent fools who vote for poverty pimps are likely are unaware of what was long done to American Indians or the black underclass. Even facing an expanding pool of white rabble, they haven't been given the tools to connect the dots." The information is out there. It is freely available. Even the ignorati complain about the way that slaves and early arriving Americans have turned out. Yet as you point out, they don't connect the dots that this is the what is developing for an entire generation of current unmotivated people. The government says that there is no excuse for being ignorant and not paying your taxes. So is there an excuse for these low information voters that refuse to learn from recent history?

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