"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty as We Know It
"Depending on the bureaucrat’s frame of mind, his pet programs might focus on doling out conditional charity to 'deserving' poor people, or putting more 'at-risk' poor people under the surveillance of social workers and medical experts, or beating up recalcitrant poor people and locking them in cages for several years."
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