(Keith wrote:- ) I often get the impression that the Douglas
philosophy entails the elimination
of government, but when it comes down to issues of implementation there is
clearly no escaping the necessity of some
government functions. The question then is just which functions should
disappear in a Social Credit perspective on ideal social organization?
(Joe replies:- ) I think the Douglas philosophy doesn’t really envisage the
elimination of government, but rather its role changing to better enable people
to do for themselves again many of the things governments now maintain they
must do for us. To the point where
people have become ‘conditioned’ into believing various government
programs are necessary for their very ‘financial’ survival. Take the recent issue of government funded ‘daycare’,
for example. If we were properly
credited with ongoing increases in overall ‘capital appreciation’
through the CPD and ND, does it not seem likely that an increasing number of
people would NOT have to look to the ‘government’ to provide for
them through various ‘programs’? Ones which often seem to cost as much, or more,
in administration to distribute the limited benefits they bring as the benefits
they’re supposedly distributing. Why do we not try to enable people to pay for
whatever choices in life they’d individually prefer rather than have
someone at the top telling us what’s supposedly good for us and will be
allowed?
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