Basic Training

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

The child’s book “If you give a mouse a cookie” is held up as an illustration of federal welfare policy, but it’s missing an essential component: the threat.

Mother gives birth but can’t afford to feed Child. What should happen?

Mother gives Child up for adoption? No, Mother threatens to let Child starve to death – unless federal government pays up.

So, to save Child’s life, federal government takes money away from Stranger to give to Mother to purchase food Child.

But Child needs more than food, Child needs shelter. Mother threatens to let Child freeze to death, so Fed takes Stranger’s money to pay for Mother’s rent.

A sick Child needs medical treatment. Mother threatens to let Child die, so Fed takes . . . .

The threat is never explicit; it doesn’t need to be. We know Child will die if we don’t pay up if we don’t meet this ransom demand, and the next, and the next.

It’s not actually like giving a mouse a cookie, it’s more like The Spanish Prisoner. And everybody knows that’s an unconscionable scam.

Joe Doakes

That, of course, is one of the things progressivism does these days; makes things that used to be unconscionable into kids stories.

2 thoughts on “Basic Training

  1. whats truly obscene is that not only does Child need to be saved relentlessly from certain death but after 14-15 years Child now has a Child of its own that must be saved from death. With judicious planning (see PP) it doesn’t take long to have an active chain of scammers stretched over 4 generations.

  2. The cycle of dependency REQUIRES you to cease and desist from this type of analysis. For the children.

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