The Great Welfare Empire Conspiracy - Page 02

Inventors Recognized Right of Private Individuals to Criticize Game

The first three quotes, above, came from private organizations. When Ron and I first published the game in October of 1980, and received nationwide publicity, we were aware of their opposition. We recognized the rights of these private groups to disagree with the game and to speak out against it. Although Ron and I had never tried to stop the NAACP, NOW, or NASW from distributing their products or opinions to anyone, we did recognize their right, however misguided and antidemocratic, even to try to frighten retailers with liberal rhetoric and threats of pickets and boycotts.

Government Efforts to Ban the Game a Step toward Tyranny

The last five quotes, above, came from government officials. In the fall of 1980, we had no idea that city, state, and federal government bureaucrats were working with the NAACP, NOW and others, actively directing a nationwide effort to "remove the game from the marketplace." Ron and I believe that government officials have no right whatever to organize to quash the dissemination of political opinions that they disagree with or find "offensive," whether such opinions be in the form of speeches, books, videos, games or whatever. Such government-directed activity is a stepping stone to tyranny.

APWA Runs the Welfare Empire

In the fall of 1980, Ron and I, like most Americans at that time and even today, had never heard of The American Public Welfare Association (APWA)-the nerve center of America's welfare empire. (They have changed their name to The American Public Human Services Association, or APHSA, but we will continue to refer to them as APWA). Its board of directors is made up mostly of the welfare commissioners of state and local welfare agencies. APWA pushes relentlessly for expansion of the empire and what it calls its "progressive" agenda by skewing welfare data to make it look like more funding is always needed, by manipulating bills through various Congressional committees, by translating welfare laws into the welfare rules that the various executive agencies use to dole out government largesse, and by propagandizing in the media. When APWA meets public opposition in a certain program, it holds its ground there, while pushing hard to expand other welfare programs not under public scrutiny. The majority of its budget comes from taxes in the form of dues which the state and local welfare agencies pay annually. The APWA bureaucrats who run the welfare empire are not elected by the public; they are not even appointed by elected officials. They elect themselves.

APWA controls the National Council of State Public Welfare Administrators (Changed in 1997 to the National Council of State Human Service Administrators) and the National Council of Local Public Welfare Administrators (Changed in 1997 to the National Council of Local Human Service Administrators). Its affiliate groups include The American Association of Public Welfare Attorneys, the American Association of Public Welfare Information Systems Management, the Association of Food Stamp Directors, and the State Medicaid Directors' Association.

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