What are social programs? Most sociologists will agree that they are, as described in the article titled, Do Federal Social Programs Works?, by David Muhlhausen (put out by the Heritage Foundation), efforts by the federal government that attempt to improve human behavior by increasing skills or awareness, chiefly through noncompensatory services.
These programs engage in social engineering that attempts to enhance the well-being of citizens. Social programs are intended to fix social problems that individuals are assumed to be unable to solve themselves. Do federal social programs work? This is a simple question. While the question may be straightforward, however, finding an answer is complicated.Why?
Because, it is not easy to firstly determine that there is an actually need for them, then determine if the need for them requires 'the' right solution and how to go about arriving at that solution including its funding. Why would it be difficult to determine a need for them? It is based on how you look at it. If you are taking a birds eye view rather than living among those who seem in need, the situation will look quite different.
And, even if the need can be determined, those that need most must be identified and not just one by one but in context of the whole. Why? Because, of social dynamics in the 'social imagination' of agreement reality. Its like this... if you uproot one thing in the forest, you will most likely cause a number of other problems even though you may have been able to determine that such and such bug/fungus is not good for a certain tree or animal.
You see, those at the top, (which would be us in the forest walking about) see things that appear good, bad and ugly. We have no idea just how important the mix of good, bad and ugly might be in the context of the whole workings of the forest... community. Its quite often better to let things in the forest take care of themselves. Wouldn't that be natural and naturally evolutionary?
Now, you can make the argument that intervention is necessary in many cases so that the loss of the forest does not occur, right? Well, according to evolutionary theory, the loss may likely be part of the process in order that something arrives on the scene or comes on the scene.
And, certainly you could say that a top down view is just as much a part of the social imagination at large and below, right? Yes and no. Yes, because its true that those at the top and bottom and in between are all part of a grand social imagination. But, the social imagination is like an onion if you know what I mean.
There are layers or levels and each is in fact its own 'grand' social imagination. So, no... the top of any 'onion' cannot always recognize nor understand what the lower levels are exactly up to and how they manage to agree (but we imagine they agree in the same way/process) and on what they agree (yet we imagine that they agree on what we would agree on if we were in their place). So, it all somehow works and or comes together in the larger grander social imagination if/when we just let each layer to his/her own.
Conclusion
Do federal social programs work? Based on the scientifically rigorous multisite experimental evaluations published since 1990, the answer certainly cannot be in the affirmative. Despite the best social engineering efforts, overwhelming evidence points to the conclusion that federal social programs are ineffective.
Ameliorating such problems as low academic achievement, poor cognitive ability, poverty, joblessness, low wages, and personal relations appears to be out of reach for federal social programs. The most notable exception is welfare-to-work programs, which increased earnings, but participants still received some government assistance. The evidence clearly shows that federal social programs are ineffective.
And, now you know why... right?
*And, why the dandelions? Some see weeds and others see future flowers. Its the story of the wheat and the tares... let them grow together until the day of reaping. The Creator knows which are His to be rewarded and which are not. He knows those who have been living for His Glory and not their own.
Online Source ~ https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/do-federal-social-programs-work
No comments :
Post a Comment