{"id":8443,"date":"2013-10-08T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/08\/nanny-state-update\/"},"modified":"2013-10-08T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T10:47:04","slug":"nanny-state-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/08\/nanny-state-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanny State Update: Of Footballs and Food Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wussification proceeds apace<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

As CBS 2\u2019s Jennifer McLogan reported Monday, officials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington are worried that students are getting hurt during recess. Thus, they have instituted a ban on footballs, baseballs, lacrosse balls, or anything that might hurt someone on school grounds<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you don't see this absurdity  within the context of Right-Left struggle, you won't understand it.  It is of a piece with the general wussification and infantilization of the populace promoted by leftists, the active promotion of food stamp dependency being a prime example.<\/span><\/p>\n

As
\nyou know, they are not called Food Stamps anymore.  The program has been given the snappy
\nnew label, at once both a euphemism and an acronym, SNAP<\/em>: Supplemental
\nNutritional Assistance Program.  And it is actively promoted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals will call it part of the social
\nsafety net.  That metaphor suggests something to keep one from falling to one's
\ndeath.  But it is also a net in the sense of a fishing net, a device that
\nentraps and deprives of liberty.  But liberals ignore this aspect of their
\nfavorite programs.  For self-reliance and the nanny state don't go
\ntogether.  Since the nanny state serves the interests of liberals,
\nself-reliance has to be diminished.  Part of the motivation of the liberal is
\nto help the needy.   But another part is the lust for power which, to be
\nretained, requires plenty of clients, plenty of dependents who can be relied
\nupon to vote Democrat, thereby voting goodies for themselves in the short term–
\nand the long-term fiscal and moral solvency of the nation be damned. <\/span><\/p>\n

Am I
\nopposed to all social welfare programs? No. There are those who truly need help
\nand cannot be helped by private charities.  But I am opposed to the current,
\nutterly irresponsible expansion of the welfare state, and for two reasons.  One
\nis economic: the expansion is unsustainable.  The other is moral: it diminishes
\nand degrades and infantilizes people.  "The bigger the government, the smaller
\nthe citizen." (D. Prager)<\/span><\/p>\n

Food Stamps: the 'bread' in bread and circuses.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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Wussification proceeds apace (emphasis added): As CBS 2\u2019s Jennifer McLogan reported Monday, officials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington are worried that students are getting hurt during recess. Thus, they have instituted a ban on footballs, baseballs, lacrosse balls, or anything that might hurt someone on school grounds. If you don't see this absurdity  within … Continue reading “Nanny State Update: Of Footballs and Food Stamps”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}