SocialismDoesntWork.com » corruption – SocialismDoesntWork.com http://socialismdoesntwork.com Why Socialims Leads to MORE Poverty, Inequality, and Injustice. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:20:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Power Corrupts – What Else is New? http://socialismdoesntwork.com/power-corrupts-what-else-is-new/ http://socialismdoesntwork.com/power-corrupts-what-else-is-new/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:25:05 +0000 Capitalist in Chief http://socialismdoesntwork.com/?p=983 One of the chief culprits responsible for the negative side effects (runaway spending, corruption, miss-allocation of resources) of big government socialist programs is that someone has to be in charge. Someone has to make decisions about distributing some one else’s money to affect the lives of yet others.

In this December ’09 podcast, Scientific American reports how “recent research finds that a feeling of entitlement to power can inspire hypocrisy.”

And hypocrisy, as we may recall, happens when those in power make up rules for the “common people” but don’t feel those same rules apply to them as well.

Go here to hear/read the report.

This is dedicated to all those who think big government social programs, which are run by self interested politicians and driven by lobbyist, can bring “fairness” to the world. With a special dedication to those who still think Obama is the one to pull it off. And a super-duper special dedication to all those who think Obama’s health care reform will be different.

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