Reddit mentions of Tyranny of Kindness: Dismantling the Welfare System to End Poverty in America

Anyone who thinks the heartless compassion-less bureaucratic government who treats EVERYONE like a freaking number, and a statistic on a filled out request form, and which can't make an independent decision based on real need instead of the 'program guidelines enacted by the legislature' is better than REAL private charity is just in denial of reality.

Getting assistance from the government is DEHUMANIZING because,

• Government has no heart
  
  
• Government has no compassion
  
  
• Government does not help someone based on their individual need
  
  
• Government does not care
  
  
• Government does not bend the rules to the situation to help someone
  
  
• Government does not dynamically find solutions to problems but can only blindly follow rules, laws and work within legal boundaries
  
  
  
• Government does not hug you when they give you your check
  
  
• Government does not wish you the best
  
  
• Government does not love
  
  
• Government does not want you to get better
  
  
• Government does not stay late and talk to you about your problems
  
  
• Government does not call you the next day to see how your job interview went
  
  
• Government does not see the big picture
  
  
• Government does not care if you REALLY need the help or if you would be taking away from those that really do need it...as long as you meet their quotas and strict program guidelines in some way either right or through trickery you get the money
  
  
• Government does not care if its doing the 'right thing'.
  
  
• Government does not care how this happened to you or want to keep it from happening again
  
  
  
  
  Getting help from your neighbor and caring charities helps, strengthens character, builds communities and heals.
  
  If you really want an education read this heart-wrenching book by a former welfare mother that documents how government is NEVER EVER EVER the solution to providing charity:
  http://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Kindness-Dismantling-Welfare-Poverty/dp/0871135787
  
  Calling for the abolition of public relief, Tocqueville cheered private charity for establishing a "moral tie" between giver and receiver.
  
  In contrast, impersonal government relief destroys any sense of morality. The donor (read taxpayer) resents his involuntary contribution, while the recipient feels no gratitude for what he receives and inevitably believes that what he receives is insufficient.
  
  Consider this simple thought experiment: If you had $10,000 available that you wanted to use to help the poor, would you give it to the government to help fund welfare or would you donate it to the private charity of your choice? Which do you think will do a better job?

Diane Pagen intro:

She's a social worker. She thinks it's insane to try to help poor people without giving them money.

(She gave a presentation this weekend that will blow you away: https://twitter.com/2noame/status/572013592335273985)

She got turned onto basic income from reading: http://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Kindness-Dismantling-Welfare-Poverty/dp/0871135787/

"All the welfare workers coming up behind me are being preened to do this lunacy."