Excise This Tumor
This morning I heard an interview with with some guy from the “Federal Administration for Families and Children.” I knew that the federal government was expanding (just look at the budget numbers), but I have to confess that I seeing the growths that have spread so much is horrifying. It’s the difference between being told that someone has cancer and seeing the tumors on an MRI.
Tom,
I have been warning fellow libertarians for years about this agency. Its power is far greater than the IRS, and the growth has been non-stop for over two decades. Both Democrats and Republicans support it because they can then claim to be pro-family.
It began in the lobbying efforts by state welfare and local county district attorney offices mandated to provide child support. The efforts created a burgeoning federal agency designed to “direct and provide resources” (mainly financial) to the local and state agencies.
What has happened, though, is the creation of a federal agency which is one step away from directly exercising control of the lives and finances of ordinary families. At the current stage, the feds have control over the practices and procedures for all of the state and local agencies (including the judiciary), as well as the local purse-strings.
The federal agency also mandates the types and forms of contact between each of the state agencies, monitoring them for any possible violation of federal procedures. The states have not been able to keep up with the federal mandates and it is only a matter of time before all of the state and local agencies are federalized into one agency, orders of magnitude more dangerous than the IRS ever was.
At least the IRS only had the purse-strings. This one will own everyone’s cojones.
Just a thought.
Just Ken
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http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/
I sometimes go through cycles of optimism and pessimism (with optimism being the normal state), but information like this would induce pessimistic thoughts in the most optimistic among us.
I’ve spent the better part of my morning discussing the pros to letting the free market run its course in real estate at home here in California with a lady I met at a local coffee shop. After an hour of questions and answers with her, she told me, “Ya, but I still can’t afford a home so something needs to be done to make ’em cheaper.”
The blues always strike the hardest after investing my time in an (all to offen unsuccessful) attempt to change the mind of a commie. Having sound reasoning fall on deaf ears has put me in more pessimistic moods than I care to remember…