Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Blacks Reject Welfare u0026 Push Self-Sufficiency! w/ Greg Foreman" video.
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Socialism is government-owned-and-operated.
Community building is voluntary and free-market. It has collectivist aspects, but only in the sense that people in the community cooperate and share, voluntarily. There is no force involved. That's where you progressives get it wrong. You want to save the world in one fell swoop, and that requires the use of force and coercion.
That's the whole point of enlightened self-interest! Community-building is a form of free-market capitalism. People want to do good and be SEEN doing good.
When the government takes over, now you're paying taxes to solve all the world's problems, and not only do you have less disposable income to share with your neighbor, voluntarily, you no longer have any responsibility to play the Good Samaritan and help a guy out. You already paid people to help that guy out, so his plight is someone ELSE's responsibility, so NATURAL self-supporting communities get chopped off at the knees.
The key, here, is it's people working with each other, not just sitting around waiting for the government to hand them a check or free housing or food. It's not a bureaucrat checking off boxes on a form, who makes $100,000 a year doing nothing BUT checking off boxes, without ever laying eyes on the recipients.
It's not his money he's spending and it's some faceless nobody (to him) that he's supposedly helping, so he has little concern whether the money is spent wisely nor does he care whether the money solves their problems.
He's just the middle man who makes 10 times what his "clients" make, and if only he could get more clients, he could grow his department and administer more people, and make more money for himself, as lord and master of his own little taxpayer-funded fiefdom.
That 6-figure bureaucrat doesn't want to SOLVE poverty. All he wants to do is SERVE poverty. If he SOLVES poverty, he's out of a job!
Socialism administered by the state inverts the incentive structure and the moral responsibility we have for our fellow human beings. It also creates a LOT of people who are beholden to the government and as corruption creeps into these big institutions, as it always does, nobody wants to upset the apple cart, because that means an end to their gravy train!
Our government employs 25 million people and there are 100 million recipients of government programs. That's more people than voted for either party in 2024. These are dangerous times! The makers are in danger of being voted into serfdom by the takers.
Take what the government deigns to give you. And obey. That's the path we're on and that's why so many are pessimistically optimistic with the ouster of the Democrats. Now the question is what kind of job the Republican majority will do with its recent victory. There's hope, but hope is faint. Uni-Party still rules.
The Democrats love war as much as any Cold-War Republican, and the Republicans are just as beholden to the welfare state as the Democrats. Neocon Democrats started with Scoop Jackson in the '70s, and then Reagan made Russia-Russia-Russia a winner for both parties. Welfare-State Republicans kicked in during the '90s, when they stopped making liberty-and-limited government arguments against the welfare state.
Now it's "Spend spend spend on every nutty handout and every murderous war" and "both (supposed) sides" are in it, together. The most Republicans will say about the handouts is they need to be managed better. Democrats don't say a word against forever war, however. They're the two sides of the same coin, as far as this libertarian-type is concerned.
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