The Tragedy of the Democrat Commons
The policies of this corrupt Democrat regime not only produce the same outcomes of the Tragedy of the Commons, that is the basis for them.
The Biden administration says the issues with illegal immigration are caused by Trump, DeSantis and GOP policies in general.
That, of course, is a lie, and a brazen one for a political party that believes enforcing the border and laws protecting national sovereignty are racist (as long as the illegal border crossers are not white or in Ukraine).
They claim they are not for open borders, but the only logical endpoint to their rhetoric - they have no affirmative policies - is an open border. The only reason they want to identify illegals crossing the border is for the purpose of getting them on the welfare rolls.
I was struck by the article yesterday about illegal immigrants trashing $500 a night Times Square hotel rooms in New York they were given for free (on your dime).
What the Democrats don't seem to get is that hotel room is an avatar for our nation, the story of people trashing the room, smoking dope and watching TV all day long is a allegory for their policies and the condition of those rooms is the logical outcome and the endpoint of our country.
Decades of free housing in the massive housing projects in major cities in the US has proven that people underappreciate and undervalue things with no personal cost and I think that is also true with access to this country.
Democrats are treating America as if it was a massive Cabrini Green.
Also at play is the Tragedy of the Commons, a socioeconomic problem where every individual is incentivized to act in such a way to be harmful to everybody.
There is also the issue of relative vs. absolute poverty.
Absolute poverty is simply defined as a daily battle for survival – I liken this to the poverty in the slums of New Delhi or the outskirts of Bangkok where people live in leaky, one room tin shacks lit by a single lightbulb, stolen electricity and survive on a single bowl of rice a day.
I’ve been there and seen it. It is soul crushing.
The solution to absolute poverty is an educated (not indoctrinated) citizenry possessing real and valuable skills and in a growing, expanding capitalist economy, not government handouts. There is no solution to relative poverty because as the national income rises, so does the “poverty line”.
In reality, absolute poverty does not exist in America – and relative poverty is not an issue except when it is used by progressives to justify class envy in pursuit of creation of a collectivist state.
Relative poverty is what we have in the US, where poverty is measured as a percentage of the income level – this allows us to classify people who possess items that are not essential to survival (i.e. mobile phones, TV’s, cars and Playstations) as “poor” and is not true poverty. Efforts to “alleviate” relative poverty are nothing more than attempts to provide a certain guaranteed standard of living, not to assure survival.
The illegals coming to America are coming from countries where absolute poverty is real into a country where there is only relative poverty and due to that shift, even though what they earn or are given in the US, they simply move from absolute poverty into relative poverty.
Because relative poverty exists on a sliding scale, poverty can never be eliminated. The poor will always be with us.
And this is exactly what statists want.
The singular goal of a statist is to increase state power by building up the state. The fastest way to do that is to import an entire underclass of lifelong welfare recipients to add to the rolls.
And power, not empathy or concern, is the driving force behind the Biden Democrats' open border policies.
>>Because relative poverty exists on a sliding scale, poverty can never be eliminated. The poor will always be with us.
Yep, even if there were just two people splitting all the wealth, but one had a penny more.
The hotels in NYC are happening everywhere. People need opportunities for soul-satisfying work, not meaningless giveaways. We need to close down the border and shutdown the giveaways until our own people go back to work and rediscover the chance to build something for themselves. Besides, we’re fast approaching the time when there will be no more to giveaway and the socialist government will make people work to eat. Anericans might not like their “choices” then.