So much for private property. One feels like a freak trying to stand up against the notion that the abstract money hole known as government needs to control everything. I noticed today that the only big construction projects moving forward in Asheville last year were government partnerships. The two largest private sector projects were withdrawn or suspended.
This week’s Buncombe County Commissioners’ agenda lists several horrific items on its consent agenda that probably won’t even get an eye bat:
The ability to own property was once considered the distinction between liberty and tyranny. Now, government is expected to make sure (i.e., pay the difference so) everybody has a nice home that can’t be stigmatized as low-income. Buncombe County will serve as the pass-through agency for $254,500 and $342,000 in federal funds for affordable housing initiatives like getting people once considered unqualified into mortgages.
In spite of the word’s denotation, it is deemed rude and discourteous to insinuate that government ownership and control of the means of production is socialism. It is considered public good for all companies to contribute taxes to a stash that the best grant-writers will win. Poor grant-writers or businesses refusing government doles, therefore, assuming government interference enhances rather than bungles, pay for their competitors to capture market share from them. A total of $57,934 in state corporate welfare will be given to four companies to train workers in the jobs they’re already doing.
Even the creation of towns is in need of government assistance. Over $10 million (A + B) in bonds will be administered for the PDF known as the Woodfin Downtown District.
And, it wouldn’t be much of a nanny state if government didn’t directly participate in the rearing of children. $34,091 in state and federal dollars will be spent training foster children for the real world.
