Walter Williams’ 1985 PBS documentary Good Intentions based on his book, The State Against Blacks (1982). The documentary was very controversial at the time it was released and led to many animosities and even threats of murder. In Good Intentions, Dr. Williams examines the failure of the war on poverty and the devastating effect of well meaning government policies on blacks asserting that the State harms people in the U.S. more than it helps them.Well, you know the old saying, beloved of "liberals" and bureaucrats everywhere: Teach a man to fish and you have a job for a day; but, give a man a fish and you have a guaranteed lifetime employment.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Good Intentions
(Hosted on Bob Parks' NMATV.com) Dr. Walter Williams: Good Intentions
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Teach a man to fish and you have a job for a day; but, give a man a fish and you have a guaranteed lifetime employment.
This is so great. I wanted to check the wording, since the other day I wanted to share it with someone at work.
We often assist social workers and public health nurses working with expectant or new moms. I've never met one that embodies your axiom; they are all both hard-working and caring. But we do get frustrated sometimes at the tendency to try to solve a girl's problems for her, which does little to build her confidence in becoming able to solve them herself.
See, that's the great thing about "liberal" solutions -- they co-opt everyone who cooperates in their implementation. Even when the persons involved have proper and disinterested intentions, the system overrides them.
The “liberal” “solution” to a social problem is not to solve it, but to manage it ... and, eventually, to milk it.
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