In another example of how I'm always right, protesters have been blocking traffic and causing a major disturbance downtown for two days. What are they protesting? What could possibly warrant laying in the street risking arrest and bodily harm? What monumental failure of the human condition must be taking place? Well, disabled people would rather get treatment at home than at a nursing home. No, I didn't just change the subject. That's really what's happening.

It's not entirely their fault. Government has gotten so huge that when people have a situation they don't like, they turn first to government. If the professional protesting group called ADAPT had spent as much time and energy making pleas for charitable donations that they spent making the lives of commuters miserable, they may have actually improved the condition of those they purport to represent.

Government has become the national charity. If you need something, government should provide it. Hell, if you just want something, you might have to work a little harder, but government will eventually get to you too. I think it is Thomas Sowell (forgive me if not) that said that bad charity will always grow to replace good charity. Good charity looks to alleviate the problem AND work to resolve the condition that caused the problem. This usually means some sort of responsibility on the part of the person receiving charity. Bad charity simply addresses the problem superficially and never actually gets to the root. Government is now an every growing BAD charity.

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That program got a lot of attention, but it's really the mentality behind it that's sad. People now think government exists to make their lives better/easier.

Oy vey.