Just a few of the kinds of yobs who need your money more than you do

Having a libertarian philosophy can be very frustrating. I don’t buy newspapers or watch the news on TV but I will occasionally come across stuff on the internet that reminds me just how crazy this country actually is. With a perspective on the world that views freedom, choice, and non-aggression as the most important things, and force, bureaucracy and big government as some of the worst, reading a news article like this one can mess with your head with its sheer amount of lunacy and wrongness. I will break it down here with what I’m thinking:

THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday.

Government has a new program to tackle crime. No government program in the history of the world has ever successfully managed to do such a thing except when the program was “give people more freedom by removing laws or programs” which it almost never is. With that in mind I already know this article is probably going to infuriate me if I let it.

The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes.

They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.

£400 million? So people victimised by problem families will have £400 million stolen from them and spent on these families.

CCTV in the home? This is Orwell’s 1984 arriving 25 years late. Who will watch the cameras? How will the people watching the cameras be paid? What incentive will these people watching to care what they see? What things will they look out for and how will they be qualified to make such judgements? What are proper meals? How will proper meals be decided? Will we need a government agency to decide on proper meals? What is the right time for bed? What will the punishments be if they ignore the bedtime? What… the… FUCK? It would be laughable if it wasn’t so terribly sad.

Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction.

These security guards have to be paid. Guess who by? YOU! Already, in the plan, is the admission that the CCTV won’t capture everything. What these guards will check for is anybody’s guess. Programs already exist to “combat drug and alcohol addiction” the problem is not the lack of programs. The problem is too many programs and a total lack of incentives for the welfare generation to do anything worthwhile.

Around 2,000 families have gone through these Family Intervention Projects so far.

And did it help? The article doesn’t mention that. The answer is obvious without looking it up. No. It will make the problems worse. By rewarding bad behaviour with more attention, more programs, and making the people feel like they are a special class that deserves to have millions of pounds of other people’s money spent on them.

But ministers want to target 20,000 more in the next two years, with each costing between £5,000 and £20,000 – a potential total bill of £400million.

This is a kick in the face to the honest family who survives on £12,000 supporting two kids and working hard for a living. Who pays a large portion of their income to the government, only for them to almost literally flush it down the toilet on people who would rather take smack and terrorise their neighbourhoods than actually produce anything of value.

Ministers hope the move will reduce the number of youngsters who get drawn into crime because of their chaotic family lives, as portrayed in Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless.

“Ministers hope” hahahahahaha. Who gives a shit what you hope. You’re wrong. Now stop stealing people’s money you useless idiots.

Sin bin projects operate in half of council areas already but Mr Balls wants every local authority to fund them.

Typical bureaucrat Ed Balls

Mr Balls has an unfortunate name but one that accurately reflects his opinions. He is essentially saying that at the moment some councils squander people’s hard earned money on these ludicrous schemes but he wants every council to waste everybody’s money. Thanks! Also check out the photo of Mr Balls. The dude looks like a politician. With his wonky eye, dead face and Nick Griffin hairdo you’re almost surprised that he is the “children’s secretary”… then you remember that it’s the government, it’s a scam.

He said: “This is pretty tough and non-negotiable support for families to get to the root of the problem. There should be Family Intervention Projects in every local authority area because every area has families that need support.”

The root of the problem is welfare in it’s various forms being provided by government and not private charity. But this truth would require the government to get rid of programs and shrink in size, so they will never admit this.

But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: “This is all much too little, much too late.

Too little? This is much too much, and should have never happened at all.

“This Government has been in power for more than a decade during which time anti-social behaviour, family breakdown and problems like alcohol abuse and truancy have just got worse and worse.”

For the reasons I just mentioned. Chris Grayling won’t mention those though because although he pretends to be against the status quo he doesn’t really have a philosophical problem with anything the Labour government has done, he just wants to enact his own big government solution. He wants to rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic; like they all do.

Mr Balls also said responsible parents who make sure their children behave in school will get new rights to complain about those who allow their children to disrupt lessons.

Another hilarious example of government causing a problem then trying to patch it up with solutions that won’t work. The problem of kids disrupting lessons is directly caused by the fact schools can’t kick out kids who have no intention of learning and parents can’t withdraw funding from a school that doesn’t perform. These “new rights” are completely hilarious. Do you need a government program to give you “new rights” to complain about the RAC’s vehicle breakdown service taking too long to arrive? No. You phone them, you ask for compensation, if they refuse, you take all your business elsewhere. The public schools don’t give a shit if you take your business elsewhere cause they get paid regardless. All this will do is create new jobs for new bureaucrats who will answer complaints, whilst nothing changes.

Pupils and their families will have to sign behaviour contracts known as Home School Agreements before the start of every year, which will set out parents’ duties to ensure children behave and do their homework.

The pupils and the families don’t care about contracts or agreements. That’s why they are problem families.

The updated Youth Crime Action Plan also called for a crackdown on violent girl gangs as well as drug and alcohol abuse among young women.

They will crack down on these things by infringing on innocent people’s rights, draining more tax money and at the end of it “violent girl gangs” and “drug abuse among young women” will be higher than when they started. You heard it here first folks.

But a decision to give ministers new powers to intervene with failing local authority Youth Offending Teams was criticised by council leaders.

Les Lawrence, of the Local Government Association, said they did “crucial” work and such intervention was “completely unnecessary”.

If Mr. Lawrence had said “worse than pointless” instead of “crucial” and that such intervention should take the form of abolishing the entire youth offending teams program then he might make a point. But he didn’t say that, so instead he’s just another useless bureaucrat.

Will the UK make it to 2011 before completely imploding upon itself? Stay tuned to find out!