Welfare Anarchy

The more I delve into the nether-regions of the welfare state, the more I realize chaos reigns.

It is said state sponsored initiatives are created for the public good; the greater good as it were. No doubt public institutions have provided "free" options for the economically less advantaged. Though I wonder if public libraries, for example, would exist at all if the government didn't pay for them. I don't see, sadly, too many people in them. Same with museums. What would they be like if there were no subsidies supporting them? I reckon, for starter, entrance fees would sky rocket. But we can't have that since it would further keep the poor from getting a chance to culture themselves. The question is, are they even going when it's "free?"

It's all basic economics. Remove the government from subsidized daycare and what's the true cost to society? A lot. More than private daycare fees who are more efficient. There's no way to argue otherwise.

The enhancement of the welfare state took place during a time when the wealth of Western nations (well, the USA and Canada anyway) were expanding just after the post-war era - although I think for Europe it was less wealth and a conscious decision to preserve their existence with the little resources they had left in the aftermath of two spectacularly murderous and expensive wars. It was left to the United States of America to finance and protect Western civilization.

In that mindset, of course we had the money to spend and even overspend in the interest of the greater good.

It's not like that anymore. We try but our economies have some adjustments to make and our public institutions need some reforming.

In the end, private or public, it's all about survival and preservation. Ask a public worker if they're willing to take a pay cut in the interest of "the children." See what the response will be. They don't care about all that mumbo-jumbo when you strip it to its basic "survival of the fittest" reality. They care about making the mortgage payment.

So why the continuous charade? Why insist on state sponsored socialism and the tyranny of over taxation to fund all these often dysfunctional programs? Has anyone noticed how North America is moving towards a cashless society? How immigrants who come here to invest have an abundance of cash setting them on a better path than the natives? The need to control and get their hands on your stash is such that they want to trace everything.

How can you possibly create any type of sustainable wealth when you eliminate cash from the equation?

The "we come in peace to better you" fallacy is likely reaching its end. Only you and your community can better your lot. A contract between citizens with the state as mere arbitrators with limited powers to settle and enforce certain agreed laws and rules should exist. Right now, the state rules OVER you; not FOR YOU.

When (if at all indeed) will we reach a private cooperative initiative?