I agree. However, while only an individual can complete the process, as in a family, we offer measured, finite support to enable the rehabilitation. Any assistance that society provides to an individual, would leave the person indebted to society. That debt would need to be repaid in the form of a contribution that promotes the general welfare. Furthermore, I would consider that assistance as a charitable endeavor, and as such, contributions to those programs should be voluntary. In fact, we already have “not-for-profit” businesses that should be employed in this venture. It’s unfortunate that so many exist primarily for the benefit of their employees.

I haven’t considered all of the exceptions, but I would start the discussion from this point.

“there is a place for social programs with a clear intent to rehabilitate people when they falter”

People must rehabilitate themselves, from the inside. No one can rehabilitate another. The intent of social programs is often mis-guided and they seldom work as intended.

He is not Hitler, Stalin, or Mao Zedong, but a secretary general, serves the “elites” and their supporters first, and the rest of humanity second. This is unacceptable and should be protested.

That said, there is a place for social programs with a clear intent to rehabilitate people when they falter, but the involuntary exploitation and consolidation of power espoused by communism and socialism, are examples of failed, unsustainable systems, and affront to individual dignity. They create a people dependent on a government, which strives to perpetuate that dependence, at the expense of a population it purports to protect.

Humans either have an inherent dignity, or we will continue involuntary exploitation of each other to suit an individual’s or group’s whims. And no, population control is not a solution.

Rest in peace.

Condolences to the family and friends of the dead and injured.

Especially on this day whereupon the Berlin Wall came down, this jack-ass is trying to build a new one to imprison Americans.

In thinking about this, it’s funny they didn’t build a fence or wall when they had a chance and the American people wanted it. They could be using it against us soon…

“If you want to see a recipe for failure,” Mr. Heinrich said, “don’t do the things you talked about in your campaigns and turn your back on your base. All the independent voters in the world don’t matter if the Democrats don’t turn out.”
– Representative Martin Heinrich (Democrat)

From the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The American Dream is of equal opportunity and an environment in which to enjoy it. Those that practice selective science, observe relative ethics and morality, that create “protected classes”, that legislate and litigate to curtail our Creator-given rights, and act to quell dissent against the usurpers of power and capital, are supporting the subversion of our Constitution and related declarations.

So we wait patiently, comply with the law of the land, peacefully protest their tyrannical control, and await the actions of our would-be despots, our “leaders”, the extremists.