Heidegger

as I predicted 1 year ago.
(oh yeah, Heidegger relevance: the whole
anti-US-technology-capitalism-hegemony-gestell thing)

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Socialist Man in the Big Easy
By Vedran Vuk
9/25/2006 http://www.mises.org/story/2319#

Marxists long theorized that communism would bring about the new socialist
man. Through communist programs, man would turn his sole purpose to laboring
and struggling for the greater good of the collective.

Through socialist policies and redistribution, New Orleans has raised from
its ruin a new socialist man. However, instead of working for the
collective, this risen New Orleans man does not work at all. He does not
live for the collective but lives at the expense of the collective. This
reality is drastically different from what Marxists had in mind when
referring to the man created from socialism.

To a person with common sense, this seems like an obvious outcome. If you
give money to those who stay unemployed, you are not teaching them to work.
Rather, you are teaching them how to survive without working.

Let’s begin with the supposed housing shortage in New Orleans. The
government is giving more and more trailers to the citizens of the city.
Even the officials of the city constantly talk about the “housing shortage.”
Every New Orleanian knows differently.

A simple look atCraigslist.org  http://neworleans.craigslist.org/apa/)
reveals the plentitude of homes available in the area. These are houses
available for rent on just one website which hardly represents all rentable
properties in New Orleans.

If there are houses available, why do people still request trailers? It’s
really simple. Free is always better. Sure, there are homes available but
who wants to pay when they don’t have to. The government interprets this
demand as a housing shortage. At price zero, demand is as much as people
want. The realities of availability are thrown to the side so that these
bureaucrats can get even more money to bribe disgruntled voters with free
trailers calling the problem a “housing shortage.”

Personally, I know people who were renting an apartment, and then received a
trailer from the government. Their next step was to move out of the
apartment. Their problem was not finding a place or even paying rent. But as
I said, free is always better especially when someone else foots the bill.

Now the next issue is jobs. We all know that jobs are plentiful in New
Orleans and are paying outstanding wages. Recently, I saw Taco Bell in
Slidell hiring at $11/hour. Here’s another list of jobs
 http://neworleans.craigslist.org/ret/) available to low-skilled workers in
New Orleans from Craig’s List.

Why is the murder rate for July in New Orleans higher than last year with
half the population around? These jobs are available with great wages!
Living wage advocates always talk about how everything would be solved when
wages for low skilled labor were around $10-15/hour. Well, here we have it
leftists! Take a big look. The wages are at the living wage rate, yet
employers are desperate to find employees. Anyone who applies for a job is
often hired on the spot before the entire application is even filled out.

In the face of these opportunities, the crime rate grows. Conservatives and
libertarians are often accused of having a vicious and maligned view of the
poor on welfare as lazy. I don’t think that welfare recipients of New
Orleans are naturally lazy, but I believe that our socialist policies have
made them so. People simply don’t want to work anymore. They would rather do
nothing and live on barely anything than consider work.

Can a left-liberal please e-mail me with their reasoning on why these people
are committing crime instead of working when there are countless jobs at
outstanding wages? The living wage is here. Dare to look at the situation!
People are still not working. It’s not the wage that must be changed. It is
the mindset of people that must be altered or these problems will persist.
The welfare culture must be abolished for the good of everyone in this
country. If this is not done, crime and murder will continue in the face of
high wages, as has been happening in the Big Easy.

The accelerated rate in transfer payments to Katrina victims has resulted in
an accelerated rate of crime not just in New Orleans but in Houston and
Jackson, Mississippi as well. If you want to help the poor, don’t start by
talking about higher wages. Start by talking about the welfare system and
its effects. New Orleans has shown that high wages and job opportunities are
not enough in the face of a subsidized mentality of redistributionist
policies.

The welfare state must be destroyed to begin the process of change. New
Orleans has shown that high wages and plentiful job opportunities are not
enough. Every piece of the coercive redistributionist regime must be taken
apart. Decades of welfare have created this new socialist man of New
Orleans. Stripping welfare is the only solution as market-driven wages are
not enough to return society back to its natural order.

Posted on Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
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