Thanks.
It works for the welfare state as well. Even in a kook liberal state like Minnesota, welfare reform under Reagan averted the the TOTAL welfare state, at that time. Even the less extreme liberals there let out a breath of relief.
I was at a party once where there was a pregnant woman who was a charity case but proudly claimed that society owed her because making her baby was a duty to society.
Even my LIBERAL SO at that time was disgusted at this almost Marxist BS.
Minnesota had been heading for a situation where the welfare recipients ran the voting booths.
Reagan pulled MN back from the brink, then.
In the early 1980's a new Office Etc store opened a block from my home and THOUSANDS of people applied for work, lining up around the block.
The forms made it clear their priority was to hire people off the welfare rolls to get welfare to work subsidies or credits.
I left, disgusted, when I found that out.
In the early 1980's I also attended a Jobs Training program and discovered that a LOT of jobs I might have gotten otherwise were being set aside for welfare to work people.
I complained that if they hadn't set aside those jobs, half the people in the program wouldn't have needed it.
As I was trained to do, each time I was between jobs I ran to apply for unemployment in a HUGE line in a HUGE employment services building in downtown Minneapolis. (I bet the building is gone.)
They had big budget/staff cuts there and because of my occasional perfunctory visits I noticed that the people they cut were NOT the lazy ones in the back but the front line personnel who actually served the public!
Even to this day I HATE going to any state Job Service office. The last time I was at our local one here I stood on tippy toes to count the bureaucrats and cubicles trying to roughly estimate the payroll cost alone for the staff at our local Jobs office.
That Jobs Training class back in the early 80's had taught me that the efficacy of newspaper ads and Job Service offices are a huge farce.
Of people who got a job, less than 5% got it through Job Service.
Of people who got a job, something like 3% got it through a newspaper job ad. Many job ads are for jobs where they already have some buddy or relative in mind for the job anyway. (See the H1B visa scam going on now.) Many ads are only to satisfy government BS.
Of people who got a job, something like
60% got it because they had a buddy or relative already working there.I usually got hired based on merit. Even the one job I can think of where a buddy connection helped, merit and skills were still a much higher priority.
Heck I was an entrepeneur in elementary school. Small business is very much in my blood. Both sets of grandparents and both parents ran small businesses.
I hate bureacracy so much that even large corporate employers make me sick.
Even the Communist holdouts like Raul Castro have figured out that MILLIONS of bureaucrats is a drag on the economy.