Partisan Discourse

Dissent on Shelter Care

Published by Mark Von Nida on May 16th, 2008

Commenter Stephen Jellen writes: 

Local government is inherently in the best position to aid individuals; and it can do it at the lowest cost. Big government services to individuals must aim at statitistical abstractions instead of real people. It is unwieldy in requiring a lot of arbitrary rules to cover real and imagined possibilities. Whereas the practical judgments of local officials more often succeed in actually helping real people…

Jellen continues:

      The folks who want to kill the sheltered care home have never taken any other initiative to improve mental health care in the county. The want big government to do only because it will then not be them doing it. Whether big government does it well or at all will be beside the point.

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