The blame game has gone too far

Caspar Conde writes in The blame game has gone too far when governments become guardians that:

When a population is encouraged to depend on government to protect it from risks, personal dignity is threatened and the principle of limited government disappears. Before World War I, the federal government passed an average of 23 new pieces of legislation each year. Today, that has risen to average 178. As time goes by we become increasingly regulated and monitored, which means we lose the habit of self-reliance.

The clearest example of this is the growth of the welfare state, the ultimate government risk-minimisation strategy.

In 1965, only 3 per cent of working-age adults relied on welfare payments as their primary source of income. Today, that figure is 16 per cent, or one in six people.

The less we are required to look after ourselves, the more government assumes the task for us.

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In other words, the dreaded NANNY STATE.

Welfare state is insurance for all of us in case things go wrong. With insurance, we can take greater, not lesser, risks. What Caspar Conde is describing is the crushing effect of the Capitalist system on ordinary people.

When people lose control over their lives, they become crushed and alienated from each other. What we need to do is take control of our lives back from the corporations and the monied politicians by taking control of the factories and the work places. Democracy, not Autocracy, in the work place!