{"id":6610,"date":"2015-05-05T08:49:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T14:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2015-05-05T09:09:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:09:03","slug":"funding-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/funding-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"funding failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider all of the government programs that subsidize and enable people enduring consequences from broken families. On the one hand a civil society has difficulty looking away from human tragedies. The urge is to do something. Human tragedy, however, is not a problem that government can fix. Broken people don&#8217;t mend very easily. But broken families may be prevented. Broken families have many causal influences. If politicians must spend money, a more sane set of spending targets would be to <em>fund those behaviors in society that don&#8217;t cause broken families<\/em>. The focus must shift to <em>prevention<\/em> because government <em>remedies<\/em> just make matters worse.<\/p>\n<p>If we must attempt to practice social engineering, at least subsidize what we would like to see more of, not what we want to see less of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"headline\">Background: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crisismagazine.com\/2015\/the-true-story-and-tragedy-of-race-in-america\" target=\"_blank\">The True Story\u2014and Tragedy\u2014of Race in America<\/a><\/strong> by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crisismagazine.com\/author\/stephen-m-krason\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen M. Krason<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider all of the government programs that subsidize and enable people enduring consequences from broken families. On the one hand a civil society has difficulty looking away from human tragedies. The urge is to do something. Human tragedy, however, is not a problem that government can fix. Broken people don&#8217;t mend very easily. But broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,283],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-spending","7":"category-victimocracy","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6620,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}