The very quintessence of government "welfare"

If you want to understand the very quintessence of government welfare, you need to see the following three-part series of videos. The content is, frankly, deeply disturbing. It is the stuff of nightmares. Tragically, it is also the stuff of reality for thousands of children each year in the USA, with similar nightmares being played out in other "civilized" countries around the world.

Innocence Destroyed - Part 1 - WARNING: Graphic Content

Innocence Destroyed - Part 2 - WARNING: Graphic Content

Innocence Destroyed - Part 3 - WARNING: Graphic Content

Here we have the tyranny of good intentions in perhaps the most horrifying form imaginable. It is symptomatic and symbolic of all that is wrong with government welfare. There is no "good deed" that the government cannot manage to completely screw up and transform into a vehicle for the perpetration of great evil. Despite the best of intentions that people might have, everything from education to health care and all other forms of welfare provide a great stage for the government to prove, day in and day out, that "a righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." The solution to this institutionalized cruelty is not "reform." The solution is to get the government out of areas where it has never had any legitimate role to begin with, and to put those functions back where they belong, with the church and the family. We must stop seeking salvation from the false god of the State and start seeking salvation from the one true living God. At the very least, if that is part of the lesson that people bring away from watching these videos, then the deaths of the children will not have been in vain.

Most if not all of the various welfare services ostensibly currently provided by the government are essential to the proper function of society, but in the nature of the case they can only fail when those functions are taken over by the State. The proper place for all of them is not under the authority of the State, but rather under the institutions of Family and Church. We must pray to God for help in restoring each of these institutions to their proper place in society. Until we do that, we are continuing to fail not only children like the ones in these videos, but all the people in our society who are in need of help.

See also:
Hitler Is Alive and Well in the Western World

(HT: Chris W., Don H.)