For once, the beaurocrats admit they've exceeded their job description

The title of this article is also the title of the corresponding article in the Metropolitan section of today's Dallas Morning News. That's right. Council members decide to disband because (get this) they can't achieve their goals of helping the homeless and others in need.

The article was buried on page 3B, as if it wasn't important. This article is so important, and on so many levels, it should have at least made to, say, 2B. This is morality legislation in microcosm.

When you are told that Social Security will not work; when someone tries to explain the horror that is the government regulated education system; when you are appalled at the assertions of those that wish to get the government out of the workplace, I refer you to this article on page 3B. You see, the city of Dallas does not have the ability to print its own money and extract it from the population at will. The city of Dallas must actually attempt to budget their budget. It is for this reason that they must admit glaring misappropriations of government, and why it (at least sometimes) has to admit that there are things that need to be done in this world that government cannot do.

In contrast to Dallas' "save the homeless" council, let's look at our government's "save the old people" program, Social Security. There are plenty of ways to get this monkey off our backs, and no way for it to work (do the numbers), yet our government still insists on "reforming" this problem program. The biggest problem is that we have to trust the government. People cannot trust their government, they must instead ensure that it is not cheating them, as governments are want to do. We give the government our money in the form of that ridiculous "auto-deduction" from our paychecks in good faith that that money is being used to provide for our retirement. Of course, a week later its in the pocket of someone who's retired now. And when the baby boomers are all retired, there will be far less to go around, and more funds must be appropriated from our paychecks (and likely from that mysterious thing, the US "budget allocation"). This is partially why our so-called "conservative" current administration allows so many immigrants to illegally cross our borders, and why our government perpetually entertains ideas of granting citizenship to these illegal aliens (like they did en masse in the 80s). They do it to have more working age people to extract money from for their failing socialist program. The only problem with this scenario is that it only works as long as the population is increasing. I will grant that we have a lot of open space in America and are a far cry from overpopulation, but is it wise to perpetuate a system that we know will only work in this manner? Should we not at least make an attempt at correction? Perhaps more importantly, do we wish to send the message to the world that our laws do not matter? Break them long enough and get amnesty? No, the US is not like the city of Dallas, they have lots more options, don't they?

Everytime we allow our local, state, and federal governments to convince us that they have the authority, or even the ability, to fix social problems; everytime we allow ourselves to take the role of children and give them the role of nanny, we have allowed them to dupe us into donating our control to them. We must stop this. It is all too easy to "let the government take care of it", but they won't take care of it because they can't. It's not their job, its ours. If we can't take care of our social problems then we have devolved as a society, and I simply refuse to believe that.