Some people don’t like the government designing programs that make the default option the right choice for most people. Because some people call that social engineering. The thing is that just because something is default, it doesn’t mean you have to choose it or that it’s necessarily right for you.
Social engineering really is not a bad thing, if the defaults are sensible and good policy.
An un-engineered policy, often defaults to the wrong option for most people. So your essentially pushing people to do the wrong thing, which is not good government policy. Many social engineering policies are widely accepted, and exist through out society, though they are often not explicitly called social engineering.
The best way I can answer that question is with ‘Pruitt-Igoe’, the failed 1954 public housing complex that was blown up and hauled off to a local landfill in 1972.
The idealistic architect Minoru Yamasaki designed Pruitt-Igeo, the World Trade Center, and many other buildings during the 1950s and 1960s. Built in the modernist style, the buildings ultimately failed to reform the people they were designed to inspire and quickly fell into disrepair and became dangerous cesspools only a few years after opening.
America is the wealthiest society in the world, we have a moral obligation to help the poor. Yet, Minoru Yamasaki idealism and plan to help the poor with beautiful high-rise buildings set in a park setting with playgrounds, stores and clean, modern apartments with running hot water, heat and flush toilets proved to be disaster that ultimately would be blown up and hauled off to the landfill. Remember, many cold-water flat tenants prior to his buildings bathed with hot-water in a bucket, with water available only in common areas. You can blame really two things — cost cutting and top-down planning that was unresponsive to community needs.
Pruitt-Igoe is emblematic of what is wrong with Big Government liberalism — a bold vision for a better tomorrow, that inevitably fails to make a better community. It’s not saying we shouldn’t help the down-trodden build a better life, but it shouldn’t come from big centralized government programs that aren’t build for unique communities. Big buildings are great for politicians to cut ribbons on, but they rarely suit community needs. Liberalism should focus on small problems at community level, and move away from big national programs that don’t reflect local community conditions.
Big ideas are impossibly expensive to implement, especially with the inflation pressures that any big program is bound to create in the economy. The high cost of implementation doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. And that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t help working families get ahead. But we should do it in a measured steps, making small changes to existing programs to make it better. We shouldn’t take a bulldozer to existing programs, but instead look to build on what has proven to be successful. It’s hard for politicians to take credit for small changes, but small changes are often the best way to make the world a better place for ordinary people.
Cultural diversity is increasing across the world. Migration is bringing new people together, changing the face of cities and countryside. But new people and new ideas doesn’t mean traditional values are on the way out — it just means they are changing.
Respect for hard work, dignity, or that land that sustains us is not going away just because demographics are changing.
Many liberals want to believe that there will be a surge in demand for liberal policies with the new immigrants. Many conservatives bite into that ideology — ignoring the diversity of immigrants or that a sizable number of them are quite conservative.People who tend to immigrant are of a higher social class, seeking a better life, more dedicated then average person towards free enterprise and economic growth.
Are really migrants that come to America to milk cows, work on farms, live in rural communities — all that liberal? Rural life or even hard blue collar life in the city does not promote liberal ideology for sure. And the many immigrants who own small businesses, are not clamoring for more regulation or taxes on small businesses.Catholics, which many hispanics are, have no love for new abortion facilities popping up in their neighborhoods.
New people entering into a community can lead to change, for sure. Not all change is bad, more diversity leads to more innovation and growth. Part of embracing diversity is accepting not just new but also existing cultures. Change is tough but with mutual respect between the new and old people of an area, we can have a more diverse stronger society.
I was reading about the Climate Emergency, and was thinking I have no real idea what an emergency is. Sure, I’ve heard the word emergency used in various contexts, but I’ve never heard it actually defined.
An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or environment. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening of the situation, although in some situations, mitigation may not be possible and agencies may only be able to offer palliative care for the aftermath.
While some emergencies are self-evident (such as a natural disaster that threatens many lives), many smaller incidents require that an observer (or affected party) decide whether it qualifies as an emergency. The precise definition of an emergency, the agencies involved and the procedures used, vary by jurisdiction, and this is usually set by the government, whose agencies (emergency services) are responsible for emergency planning and management.
In other words, an emergency is a politically-defined situation. Emergencies aren’t self-evident, they are defined substantially in the context of the problem, seen through a lens of personal and community values.
A related term would be crisis, which by definition are negative situations that require action to avoid things getting worse. I feel like I have a better idea of what a crisis is, but a definition is worthwhile to review.
A crisis (plural: “crises”; adjectival form: “critical”) is any event or period that will lead, or may lead, to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, or all of society. Crises are negative changes in the human or environmental affairs, especially when they occur abruptly, with little or no warning. More loosely, a crisis is a testing time or an emergency.
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York on Thursday signed a law that requires companies that are big fossil fuel polluters to help pay to repair damage caused by extreme weather, which is becoming more common because of greenhouse gas emissions.
The legislation, called the Climate Change Superfund Act, mandates that the companies responsible for the bulk of carbon emissions buildup between 2000 and 2024 pay about $3 billion each year for 25 years.
But new people and new ideas doesn’t mean traditional values are on the way out — it just means they are changing.
Many conservatives bite into that ideology — ignoring the diversity of immigrants or that a sizable number of them are quite conservative.
People who tend to immigrant are of a higher social class, seeking a better life, more dedicated then average person towards free enterprise and economic growth.
, work on farms, live in rural communities — all that liberal? Rural life or even hard blue collar life in the city does not promote liberal ideology for sure.
And the many immigrants who own small businesses, are not clamoring for more regulation or taxes on small businesses.
Catholics, which many hispanics are, have no love for new abortion facilities popping up in their neighborhoods. 
Change is tough but with mutual respect between the new and old people of an area, we can have a more diverse stronger 
society.