Charity

It’s not just the government putting the screws to the poor. Charity for fun and profit.

Homelessness is a growth industry. Everybody involved in “helping the homeless,”  is getting fat. The only people not getting the largess are those who are the client base. Here is an example.


Patrick Kennedy, the former Democratic representative and scion of the liberal political dynasty, has emerged as the unlikely go-to player for companies seeking to benefit from the Trump administration’s multi-billion-dollar response to the opioid crisis, reaping well over $1 million in salaries and equity stakes in the firms.


Kennedy also gives frequent speeches for which he said he’s typically paid between $15,000 and $40,000 apiece. He declined to estimate how much he makes per year from those speeches, but said they also give him the opportunity to promote his 2015 memoir.

Politico, 04/18/2018

Compare and contrast. Put an engineer in a swamp, asshole deep in alligators. Tell him to drain the swamp. At the end of the project, if the engineer ‘s feet are still wet, it is easy to conclude the project and the engineer are a failure.

Tell a politician or community organizer to “drain the swamp.” If one comes back later to find what was knee deep is now neck deep, the project is a success. The explanation is that the metrics for measurement were not realistic. The obvious explanation is if the water is deeper in one place, it it is shallower someplace else. So the swamp is being drained somewhere. What a job! Employment for life, no results expected or required. Competence is based on slavish devotion to process, without regard to results.  

LBJ created the great society. Not the one for the poor. The one that provided middle class, no work jobs, for those exploiting the poor. Put the whole enterprise into the context of whaling or buffalo hunting. The hunter and whalers were too efficient and put themselves out of business. No whales, no buffalo, no cushy jobs.

Modern day community activists have learned the lesson. Homeless, crazy, lame and lazy must be cultivated. They must be encouraged and bred. Student loans for jobs that don’t pay a living wage ensure that the pool of clients remain strong.

Public schools serve as warehouses. Teaching usable skills, like reading and writing is passe. The priority is supporting the infrastructure; teachers, administrators, janitors and school boards. Students are in the way.

Can’t have the riff-raft going to Harvard. Barney’s auto body and nurse aid training school maintains the illusion that school is available to all. Poor pay and crushing student debt, hey we got section eight housing and AFDIC to fill in the gaps.

We have all these programs. If the poor don’t take advantage of them then it is their fault. It couldn’t possibly be the system.