46 Articles tagged with: Welfare State

• Vagrants in Our Driveway: A Teachable Moment

   “I’m calling the police,” my mother said from her upstairs office.  When I ran upstairs to find out what she was talking about, she was on the line with 911, telling them about the partially clothed adult male stumbling around the… Read Article

• The Classic Path to the Inevitable Result: Venezuela Succumbs to Dictatorship

  This week, the opposition forces in Venezuela are still in the streets, struggling with government forces, to protest last week’s lurch of Socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s government toward dictatorship. Thousands of people blocked the mai… Read Article

• Is Theft Now Legal in Italy?

  The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that stealing small amounts of food out of desperation “does not constitute a crime.” The adverse moral and political effects of this ruling will be large and downright criminal.

   

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• Millennials Need Capitalist Morality

  A Harvard survey found that only 42% of 18 to 29 year olds support capitalism. The good news of sorts is that only 33% support socialism. Yet 44% support its close cousin progressivism, and 48% support “social justice activism.” These res… Read Article

• Baltimore riots as Criminal Culture Writ Large

  The rioting in Baltimore represents criminal culture writ large. It is what happens every day on a smaller scale in poor minority communities: theft, vandalism, and violence.

  The flames in Baltimore hideously illuminate the fact that the c… Read Article

• Poverty Rhetoric, Obama, and SNAP

  Are you a whiner who doesn't know how rich you are?

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• Obama's Inauguration: Celebrating Enslavement

  President Barack Obama’s inauguration for his second term was held on Martin Luther King’s birthday with Obama’s hand on King’s and President Lincoln’s Bibles. The event was tinged with grim irony.

  Four years ago most Americans… Read Article

• Crony Capitalism versus "Making" Money

  Saluting the philosopher who gave reason its foundational tool, Ayn Rand named the three sections of Atlas Shrugged after Aristotle’s axioms of logic. The second section, “Either-Or,” is the novel’s pivot point.

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• Progressivism and Objectivism

  Question: Are Objectivism and Progressivism linked? I have always considered myself a Progressivist and, after much study on Objectivism, I now know that I am definitely an Objectivist. Is Objectivism a type of Progressivism as it is a type of H… Read Article

• Needy Children

  Question: As stated in another Q&A on this website, children that must be removed from their families should be cared for by "some private charity or adoption, because in these cases a stranger voluntarily accepts the responsibility for the … Read Article

• Poverty and Disabilities

   Question: Objectivists still haven't given an answer as to how the disabled and poor are to be taken care of. Basically, your response was, "nothing." So does the Objectivist have a logical solution as to how the "needy" and "unabled" can … Read Article

• Sidebar: Pioneers of Egalitarianism

  Sidebar to The Fourth Revolution

  Richard Henry Tawney (1880–1962) was a British historian who spent most of his career at the London School of Economics. He wrote widely on economic history, sociology, and current affairs. A Christian … Read Article

• Sidebar: Dependency on Government Soars to Historic High

  "Government spending on benefits will top $2 trillion this year—an average of $17,000 provided to each household,” USA Today reported in June.

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• The Individualist's Guide to Progressive Change

  If socialism were a respectable affiliation, Progressives would probably call themselves “democratic socialists.”

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• Obama's Era of Responsibility

  Summer 2009 issue -- “What is required of us now,” said President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech, “is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the w… Read Article

• Poverty, Capitalism, and Class

  Question: My brother is very socialist, and I am not. We frequently argue. His whole ideology is based on the premises that the poor were born poor and the rich were born rich; that the rich didn't earn anything they were simply had everyth… Read Article

• France's Killer Collectivism

  September 15, 2003 -- The final figures are in. According to Isabelle Dubois-Costes of General Funeral Services in France, the death toll in the country's summer heat wave was some 15,000—higher than the recent estimate of 11,400 and mu… Read Article

• Government, Yes! Leviathan, No!

  October 5, 2001 -- Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 brought Americans around to a Left-liberal conception of government? Do many more citizens now believe that Washington should keep taxes high, provide the public with an ever-expan… Read Article

• The State of The Union and The Culture of Responsibility

  January 30, 2002 -- In his powerful State of the Union address, President Bush gave voice to the two deepest truths of a free society: that the essential function of its government is to provide security, and that it depends on a culture of r… Read Article

• The Servile Citizen

  A large billboard in a local Metro station cautions passersby to “Cover your cough” and “Wash your hands frequently” when you have a cold.  Nearby, a sign in a bus shelter instructs citizens: “Do not cross street… Read Article