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The Price of Social Welfare

Realties of Contemporary America
Socialism and the Control of Human Behavior

  1. Actions - Social welfare states are built on a negative reinforcement model. Their actions are:
    1. Control and penalize
    2. Confiscate and redistribute
    3. Regulation and surveillance
  2. Purpose - The system operates on the contrived belief that quality of life is an arbitrarily determined notion of human equality
    1. It discourages Striving and Incentive
    2. It devalues competition and merit reward
    3. Encourages envy as a tool to leverage social equality
    4. Social agenda and Mission outweighs the value of truth and honesty
  3. Methods - Forced compliance
    1. Destroy national identity
      1. Multi-culturalism - Process of sending an irrational, confusing and contradictory message that (1) celebrates favored groups and ethnic differences while (2) discouraging any idea of differences that may make people seem not to be equal
      2. Diversity over merit
      3. Victim group rights
      4. Devaluing, marginalizing any constructive, rational arguments especially the viewpoints consistent with the US constitution and the founding fathers
    2. Propaganda and mythology
      1. Revise history to conform to social agenda
      2. Modify language to marginalize dissent - e.g. Orwellian talk -attack is defense, freedom is slavery, it takes a village, etc…
      3. Condition acceptance of myths - "e.g. social security trust fund"
      4. Culture of information and education must conform to the myth
    3. Marginalize the power of the individual
      1. Restrain critical thought
      2. Negatively moralize and punish personal success
      3. Minimize standards of achievement - so everyone wins.
    4. Distort reality and truth to conform to the mission
      1. Social security is the pathway to elder security
      2. Harmful criminals are classified as victims
      3. Illegal immigrants are entitled to citizen rights
      4. Homosexual behavior is an acceptable lifestyle, not perverse or socially unhealthy
      5. Discourage flow of honest information harmful to the cause
        1. Media systematically ignores unlawful misdeeds of people perceived to pursue social agenda - i.e. Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, etc…
        2. Marginalize Inconvenient Laws and Rules - Constitution which is a nuisance to the social agendas is wrongfully redefined and treated as a "living document"
    5. Wide spread intimidation
      1. Huge centralized power base
      2. Re-defining the morality of natural rights
      3. Citizen surveillance
      4. Draconian powers of fines and asset confiscation
  4. Social System Design - A society comprised of three (3) main groups organized by how they serve the purpose of social equality
    1. Privileged Class - comprised of -
      1. Central government - Paternalist, omnipotent, obnoxious custodians of the social agenda with broad powers of intimidation
      2. Parasitic occupations - people and groups organized to survive on big government by occupational agendas that empower and support the government, e.g. tax consultants, tort lawyers, etc…
      3. Brain washed support groups -
        1. Media - support the social agenda by controlling and limiting the dialogue and public discussion.
          1. Actions designed to inform by misleading
          2. Actions even rise to level of proselytizing
        2. Entertainment community -
          1. Dangerous and inept disciples
          2. Paralyzed by guilt of enormous success
            1. Ironically, - custodians of the message of social injustice
            2. Social distance rendering them incapable of true empathy for their socialist cause.
          3. Erroneous and arrogant belief in their own self-importance and intelligence.
    2. Asset Class - High asset citizens -
      1. Enable the power of the privileged class through asset forfeiture
      2. Negatively viewed as undeserving achievers and role models
      3. Object of social envy
      4. Totally separated, totally abused group with few recourses
      5. Learn the value of escape and avoidance behavior.
    3. Envy Class - Working People
      1. The unlucky stiffs who are caused to believe they somehow deserve more than they get
      2. Taught to resist notions of striving, independence, self-determination
      3. Conditioned by negative message that their belief in dependency will make them more secure and happier.
      4. Convinced that entitlements are justified incentives.
  5. Honesty - The outcomes
    1. Winners - The privileged class
      1. It has sustained itself
      2. Members enjoy privilege through confiscation and redistribution schemes that literally buy the power.
    2. Losers - The rest of us
      1. Asset Class -
        1. Under constant scrutiny (high level surveillance) of suspicion of escape and avoidance behavior
          1. Banks
          2. Financial affairs
          3. Purchases
          4. Travels
          5. Government agencies
        2. Relentless pressure
          1. To pay ever increasing and draconian demands of society
          2. To defend itself, thus paying tribute directly to privileged class through:
            1. Purchasing defense services
            2. Bribery
            3. Any means to save assets
          3. Surreptitious and extreme actions to protect assets
            1. Off-shore escapism
            2. Complex trusts and legal maneuvers
        3. Toll
          1. Stress, anxiety and depression
          2. Unnecessary burden of negative social perception
          3. Assets that can't buy happiness or broad social acceptance, only isolation
      2. Envy Class - By every human measure - poor quality of life
        1. Perpetual burden of living unfulfilled, confused and believing themselves an underclass.
        2. Lives beyond personal control
          1. Intrinsic human urge for striving is suppressed
          2. Livelihood and thriving are defined by government
          3. Benefits of dependency are decided by government
        3. Envy, a negative hateful emotion, is promoted as the pathway to livelihood and thriving.
        4. Endless Uncertainty
          1. Real feeling of being "out of control"
          2. Completely at mercy of government
        5. Happiness lies in uncritical belief and compliance, not striving to thrive
        6. Measurable consequences of envy and dependency
          1. Constant anxiety, depression, anger
          2. Life built on expectations rather than self-serving actions,
          3. Membership in victim group(s) where survival and happiness is dependent on self-defeating attitude of deserving livelihood rather than earning livelihood.
          4. Feeling that unearned advantage is moral equivalent of merit.
    3. And, in fact, it can be further argued that all three groups are losers.

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