The Menace And Immorality Of The Welfare State

In the United States policies are being promulgated by those with political power in Washington, D. C. that involve a massive and dangerous growth in the size and scope of government. At the core of the Obama administration's push for implementing a comprehensive national health care system and related programs is a radical ideological belief in political paternalism and the welfare state. 

In the face of the euphoria of those demanding such a huge expansion of "Big Brother" over even more of our lives, it is worthwhile reminding ourselves of the premises behind and the realities of welfare statism. 

Power and Paternalism 

First and foremost, the guiding idea behind political paternalism is that the individual cannot be trusted to be a free and responsible human being. Those who wish to socially engineer our lives consider us too ignorant, too irresponsible and too narrow in our own personal planning horizons to intelligently and reasonably take care of our own health care, our own retirement, our own family's education, or our own spending and consumption choices.

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