On the surface, helping those who cannot help themselves sounds like a good idea and something in which government should be involved, but like an idea in the head of most teenagers, this one is seldom thought through.
In his recent column "Liberty Versus Socialism," economist Walter Williams* exposes what's wrong with government handling social programs and not individuals (be that individual people, individual corporations, individual churches, etc) dealing with our societies ills.
The problem, in a nutshell, is coercive force versus personal responsibility (flip-flopped from the article title). Please take a read..."Liberty Versus Socialism"
*Dr. Walter Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Friday, March 7, 2008
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