Idolization of the Third World based upon race and hatred of the West is a besetting sin among what passes for intellectuals in the West.
Is the West Retarded Might Be a More Germane Question
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Interesting fact: At 7.7%, the UK has a higher rate of homelessness than the USA, and their housing crisis is worsening. I think we might have run across one of the reasons that might be the case…
Did a double-take on that ‘7.7%’ figure, and I can only find it in one study. Furthermore, it’s a challenge to compare what constitutes “homelessness” in the UK v. the USA, as the bureaucracies of each nation differ on what constitutes that state.
That said, while the 7.7% figure needs better documentation, the consensus is that the UK has the worst level of homelessness in Western Europe, and is in fact worse than the USA’s.
In the end, handing council flats to non-residents for them to sub-let whilst their own citizens are going homeless at the highest rate in Western Europe is a problem.
That among other things. NB, Britain had a ‘Conservative’ government from 2010 to 2024. They couldn’t even get around to repealing the legislation the Labour majorities passed in 2009 which is the source of much of the abuse of political dissenters in Britain.
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(1) common provision is sustainable within societies, not between them. Between societies, you can address acute issues such as famines. You could call that common provision, but ‘rescue’ would be more apposite. You can assist in teaching methods for those other societies to increase production, but, ultimately, the members of such societies have to learn from you and learn from each other.
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(2) Where you have foreigners in your midst, they properly acquire eligibility for the fruits of common provision incrementally – as a function of their own history of providing wage labor or as a function of being a dependent of someone providing wage labor. Only when you have acquired a threshold of work credit (say, 48 quarters, FTE) should you be treated by the authorities as if you were a native citizen (i.e. born of a mother who was a citizen or legitimately sired by a father who was a citizen).
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(3) Subsidizing people’s mundane expenditures is a waste; sluicing some extra cash to them has more bang for the buck. Financing and providing medical care, long term care, schooling, legal services (on the margin), and shipping and transportation present some policy problems. Goods and services which are transparent in value, frequently replenished, consumed in a manner sensitive to considerations of amenity, and have competing producers do not. Policy problems begin and end with how to address questions of public health and safety, externalities, imperfect information, &c without the state strangling production of the good or service in question. Groceries and housing fall into this category.
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(4) Governments should provide housing to a low-single-digit segment of the population as a conduit to providing some other service, and that’s it. Civilian government employees posted abroad, servicemen, boarding students at public institutions, some share of the long term care population; inmates of prisons, jails, and halfway houses; and dependents of those in the first two or three categories are the sort you should find in
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(5) Unless a service provider is a natural monopoly, price regulation is a bad idea (the exception being the legal definition of criminal ususry).
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(6) No more than about 0.5% of your population should at any one time be temporary residents. If they’re not accredited employees of a foreign government residing in the country, authentic refugees, students, teachers, or dependents of those in these categories, they cannot qualify as temporary residents.
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(7) Annual issuance of settler’s visas should not exceed 7% of the mean number of live births per year over the previous half-dozen years.