Subject: Civil Society - Politicians don't get it!
Government can redistribute wealth to redress economic imbalances, but it does not know how to reweave America's shredded social fabric. Bureaucratic compassion has proven a poor substitute for the nurturance, moral support, and guidance traditionally provided by families and communities. We face no greater social challenge today than socializing the children of broken and impoverished families, many of them born to teenage mothers. Social institutions, which operate within a framework of social discipline and community norms, are best suited for this work.
Any reform to SS must take civil society into the equation. The entire bureaucratic structure created to supposedly assist and help society is the cause of most of its problems. Government and politicians need to find ways to return these service programs to the people who know how to do it best.
Today's Social Security System can not be reformed. It must be completely overhauled with a renewed vision toward Civil Society.
