GREAT AMERICAN RECOVERY INITIATIVE
Yesterday the news was all aflutter over President Trump's GREAT AMERICAN RECOVERY INITATIVE, giving $100 million to agencies to fight drug addiction and homelessness. Purported to view drug addiction as a disease, it will funnel money through public and private organizations to combat this growing scourge on our society.
I'm reminded of Lyndon Johnson's WAR ON POVERTY in the mid-1960s, which has spent more than $1 trillion, resulting in more people living in poverty today than when that initiative started. Pardon me for being cynical about this one.
But it got me to thinking about different ideas to combat this problem, which led me to some "what ifs."
What if the government exited education so searching kids wouldn't be told girls are boys and boys are girls and girls are cats and boys are dogs?
What if the U.S. closed all its foreign bases, quit giving money to any foreign government, and brought the flower of our youth home and quit meddling in other peoples' affairs?
What if the government didn't subsidize wheat, corn and soybeans to make high fructose corn syrup, Cheerios, and seed oils the most affordable foods in the country?
What if the government got out of health care meddling and cut the budget by half and let us all keep half of our taxes to spend on what we wanted?
What if we didn't have a CDC and Anthony Fauci to lie to us, close our schools and nursing homes, and drive us into despair?
What if the government didn't subsidize and demand kids get 7 dozen vaccines in cocktails never tested?
What if anyone who wanted to build a house could build it however they wanted without asking the government's permission?
What if the government went back on the gold standard, had to balance its budget and couldn't borrow, thus eliminating inflation and making money believable?
What if the government quit interfering in employer-employee pay so businesses weren't so desperate to get rid of people?
What if no college received a dime of government assistance and had to market itself based on real life performance instead of teaching stupidity?
What if we created a national objective to enable families to survive with one wage earner so one parent could actually be there to love on their children?
What if we eliminated property taxes so nobody would lose their home?
What if we let property owners build whatever they wanted to on their own property, thus producing millions of living quarters?
Okay, enough, but you get the drift. Our epidemic of drug addiction and homelessness, I submit, is a societal problem, indicative of massive dysfunction; we don't have a drug and homelessness problem due to the government's financial stinginess.
Two questions:
1. Do you think this $100 million will make any difference?
2. If you wanted to add a "what if" to this list, what would it be?
