And working on social welfare issues close to 30 years and those of you who have read my writings know that if you most traditional Welfare Programs have been selfdefeating and have done a great deal of harm that is intended to help i found it fascinating pp on people are happy to criticize but to do welfare for the wealthy and then to have less criticism and less disapproval than those that try to help those that most need the help. Then the freeways people that are millionaires or billionaires. One is wellintentioned although not very effective so with that said we have an interesting form today talking about a new book that is available on amazon called welfare for the rich. And that is on sale right now and amazon. And then beyond that i will turn it over to our guest and show harvey is the founder former ceo and a Charitable Group with familyplanning issues around the world and the head of d kt Liberty Project which is a prominent defender of free speech as an entrepreneur and phi
Help the vulnerable but unfortunately too often the most vulnerable among us dont have aloud voice in the political process. I think we are all responsible for that, to help increase that choices we have become aware and help those individuals who are more vulnerable to us to become more and gauge in the process to work together. Notice sounds like a kumbaya moment but i do think we are all connected and we are all vulnerable and we need to work together. But foster child affected in baltimore affects all of us and i hope we can start to realize that again. You brought all of our attention over here. You brought to our attention a lot of the murky practices of different federal organizations and private organizations with a certain shadowy game that they play in creating revenue. Do you believe that regulation or oversight can tackle this issue or has it become such a large problem on the federal level . Im optimistic that we can fix and improve these problems. Its not going to happen
Or 60 or 70 years ago. I mean, having running water, hot and cold running water, indoor plumbing, a television set, microwave and a computer, would have looked very, very good to my parents when they were young. Thats quite a long time ago. But relative poverty is a very deeply ingrained belief in american society, and i think in western society generally, and as long as there are people who are conspicuously more poor than most people, i think that the concern will continue to exist, even though an n absolute terms you could argue that it doesnt. The gentleman has had his hand up for a while there. Steven with basic income action, and i was pleased to hear you mention Charles Murray and the negative income income maintenance experiments from the 60s. Want to see if youre following the discourse about basic income in europe and canada and many other places where this idea of a guaranteed floor is gaining enormous support. There will be a referendum in switzerland in a couple of weeks.
When id seen the kids to go through the circumstances they go through and come out and find a level of success and happiness and care about others, thats heroic. Im just trying to report the facts but i appreciate the comments very much. Thank you one more time for coming out. [applause] up at the front of the bookstore we will be here after a it was one racial lynching and it was a brilliant psychological device to hold down the race because if you were black, youve are afraid that this could happen to you. The author talks about his literary career including the lynching a courtroom battle that brought down the clan about the trial following the 1981 killing of 19yearold Michael Donald in mobile alabama. He was trying to become a brick layer and was the youngest of seven children. His aunt wants to ask them to get a pack of cigarettes, goes out, theres a buick that pulls up behind him, he pulls out his pistol and orders him into the backseat of the car and he knows when he gets in th
But a lot of the time, what people react to and deal with successfully are challenges put in front of them, and it was an eyeopener for me, and i think it comes through in the book that a satisfying life requires work, even if its on pleasant, even if you dont choose it. It still seems to be fundamental to a decent and happy life. As a reader of the book, and not one of the authors, and someone who has read a lot of those studies and those books, one of the interesting things i find, the big takeaway is the interviews and the voice of the poor in here, because you read a lot of the books on the left, nickel and dime, the other famous books and they deal with people. You read a lot of books on our side of the debate and they deal with numbers. And the fact that this does speak to the people and the people who are hurt by the welfare system, i do find unique and important voice in this debate. For those who want to read that, the book is the human cost of welfare. The authors are phil ha