Lethal Injection Under Fire Again

[Chaerophon]

You just made part of the case, perhaps unintentionally, that the "ward of the state" approach aids and abets creation of a criminal sub class.  What I don't understand from the story, due to my lack of specific context, is the cultural baseline of the Indian nation, or tribe, involved. 

Occhi
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I'm not sure that I see the relationship. The natives were forcibly taken from their parents in order to fulfill an assimilationist ideal. I'm talking about certain kinds of affirmative action and education programs, welfare benefits, etc. The state would not be "raising children".

One of the "Big Lies" that I like to talk about is the dramatic ways in which isolated anecdotal evidence is used to proliferate the idea that social welfare "creates" massive amounts of welfare bums. The fact is, the impact of "abusers" on society is far less than the "think tank perception" tells us. What it does is give those with the initiative the opportunity to excape their circumstances through hard work. If there is some inefficiency in the system, I personally think that it is worth it.