Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on ""Virtue Hoarders" - Author Catherine Liu -Full Interview" video.

  1.  @tootstoyou1  They're mostly good people who are too busy to waste time on politics. They're not the problem. The problem is the people who ARE political trying to make everything into government's responsibility. That's Jimmy's flaw. Instead of the "progressive" approach, which is "Government has to fix everything," he'd get a lot less attention and a lot more satisfaction just helping the people around him, and encouraging others to do the same. We'd all be better off if the solution wasn't always a political solution.
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  2. I'm a big fan of helping people. I'm not a big fan of government doing it. Every time people push for more federal programs, what you're really seeing is the privileged classes slamming the door behind them. What the poor need and want more than anything is an opportunity-rich environment, and every single government program creates one more hurdle, one more bull$hit form to fill out, one more requirement your Mom & Pop has to satisfy, to keep the regulators happy. "What? You don't have wheelchair ramps? Too bad. You need them, or we'll fine you and shut you down." "What? You can't afford to hire somebody to spray antiseptic on everything and run around the place with a roll of paper towels? (COVID nonsense) We're gonna have to shut you down." "What? You give a guy a cot in back and $20 a day to help out? That's illegal." (The guy was living on the street and that cot was way better than the shelter full of drug addicts) "What? You're not paying this teenager with his first job $15 an hour? We're shutting you down." All the political solutions do is get in the way of our helping one another and caring better for ourselves. Also, they make us all hostages to the popularity-contest winner's idea of a solution, when solutions are going to be different for different people, and you visit every mistake the politician makes on everyone at once, instead of a more "free market" which would reward and punish according to the wisdom and hard work of the individuals involved.
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