{"id":13348,"date":"2017-04-10T12:52:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/?p=13348"},"modified":"2017-04-10T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T20:08:09","slug":"poverty-vs-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/poverty-vs-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty vs Prosperity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a principle useful in understanding the true impact of a government intervention. It&#8217;s summed up in this simple phrase.<\/p><div id=\"manuf-1987413466\" class=\"manuf-content manuf-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3870480136270376\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3870480136270376\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<strong><em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Whatever you subsidize, you tend to get more of it<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subsidized corn? More corn is grown.<\/p>\n<p>Subsidized milk production or electricity generating wind turbines? You get more milk, or wind turbines, etc.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13351\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13351\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WhateverYouSubsidzeYouGetMoreOfIt-CornFieldsWindTurbinesMHProNewsGraphicsStock686x480-575x402.png\" alt=\"WhateverYouSubsidzeYouGetMoreOfIt-CornFieldsWindTurbinesMHProNewsGraphicsStock686x480\" width=\"575\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WhateverYouSubsidzeYouGetMoreOfIt-CornFieldsWindTurbinesMHProNewsGraphicsStock686x480-575x402.png 575w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WhateverYouSubsidzeYouGetMoreOfIt-CornFieldsWindTurbinesMHProNewsGraphicsStock686x480-150x105.png 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WhateverYouSubsidzeYouGetMoreOfIt-CornFieldsWindTurbinesMHProNewsGraphicsStock686x480.png 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Corn field, with wind turbines and quote &#8211; graphic credit &#8211; MHProNews\/GraphicStock.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those examples are obvious, and are the reason something gets subsidized in the first place. Where this principle gets &#8216;politically charged&#8217; is in the following examples.<\/p>\n<p>When government is subsidizing housing? You create more demand for subsidized housing.<\/p>\n<p>When government is subsidizing poverty? You can artificially create incentives that yield more poverty.<\/p>\n<p>If this be true, why is it so? Why is it done?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13350\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13350\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BusinessEconomicSocialTaxPoliticalStressesCausedBySubsidizedHousing-CreditMHProNewsGraphicStockX-512x430.png\" alt=\"BusinessEconomicSocialTaxPoliticalStressesCausedBySubsidizedHousing-CreditMHProNewsGraphicStockX\" width=\"512\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BusinessEconomicSocialTaxPoliticalStressesCausedBySubsidizedHousing-CreditMHProNewsGraphicStockX-512x430.png 512w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BusinessEconomicSocialTaxPoliticalStressesCausedBySubsidizedHousing-CreditMHProNewsGraphicStockX-150x126.png 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BusinessEconomicSocialTaxPoliticalStressesCausedBySubsidizedHousing-CreditMHProNewsGraphicStockX.png 713w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Subsidized housing graphic credit &#8211; MHProNews\/GraphicStock.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Realities of Government<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a government agency, you need paid workers. Do those workers have a built-in motivation to truly get to the heart of an issue, and forever resolve the cause of a problem? If by some means, they accomplished that, <em>wouldn&#8217;t they be putting themselves out of work?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, given human nature, don&#8217;t they want to appear &#8211; and actually do &#8211; some good, while at the same time <em>never curing the ill they are ostensibly created to address?<\/em> Isn&#8217;t the <em>appearance<\/em> of effort and <em>some<\/em> good outcomes useful to the agency and those employed or who benefit?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13352\" style=\"width: 164px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13352\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RowsWorkingLaptopsGovtWorkersManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentary-MHProNewsGraphicStock.png\" alt=\"RowsWorkingLaptopsGovtWorkersManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentary-MHProNewsGraphicStock\" width=\"164\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RowsWorkingLaptopsGovtWorkersManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentary-MHProNewsGraphicStock.png 314w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RowsWorkingLaptopsGovtWorkersManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentary-MHProNewsGraphicStock-150x103.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Rows working at laptops, credit, MHProNews\/GraphicStock<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In doing whatever the agency is tasked to do, isn&#8217;t there an impetus<em> to maintain and grow the agency<\/em> that writes their paychecks?<\/p>\n<p>After all, &#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">whatever you subsidize, you tend to get more of it<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/span>&#8221; That includes governmental agencies, ever expanding, needing more workers, more authority, more tax dollars&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faithful Freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reason faith-based groups tend to be more effective at dealing with the causes and cures for poverty &#8211; includes, but isn&#8217;t limited to &#8211; the fact that there&#8217;s often a personal and moral component to a problematic issue. The poverty programs addressed by faith-based groups tend to <em>teach a person to fish<\/em>, instead of <em>giving a person a fish<\/em>. Faith-based groups operate on a moral code, and teach personal responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, faith-based groups often operate on a sizable amount of voluntary labor. Thus more donated dollars go toward the cause, vs. tax dollars actually going\u00a0 towards a targeted issue. The &#8216;overhead&#8217; of faith-based groups is lower. Faith-based groups are more motivated to solve an issue, vs. endlessly posturing about an ever growing need, as is common with a governmental bureau.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking Deeper&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Be it <strong>HUD&#8217;s manufactured housing program<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/federal-data-spotlights-manufactured-home-industry-quality-regulatory-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\">advertising for complaints on manufactured home producers<\/a>, or<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13354\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13354\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WashingtonTImesCFPBpaidAdsProvingTheirValuePostedMastheadBlogMHProNews.png\" alt=\"WashingtonTImesCFPBpaidAdsProvingTheirValuePostedMastheadBlogMHProNews\" width=\"360\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WashingtonTImesCFPBpaidAdsProvingTheirValuePostedMastheadBlogMHProNews.png 360w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WashingtonTImesCFPBpaidAdsProvingTheirValuePostedMastheadBlogMHProNews-126x150.png 126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Recent ad by the CFPB on the <strong>Washington Times.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0The CFPB is advertising to get more people to use their &#8216;federal services.&#8217; Did college students have resources for this before the CFPB existed? \u00a0Of course. Image provided under fair use guidelines.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>2 &gt;<\/strong> The <strong>CFPB advertising<\/strong> for clients or complaints, so they can get more calls and cases, thus better justifying their existence;<\/p>\n<p>there are clear examples of how governmental agencies have an innate motivation to de facto find or create problems, so they can <em>appear to be addressing their mission<\/em>. Doing so protects an agency&#8217;s existence &#8211; and the many jobs within it.<\/p>\n<p>The first example <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1&gt;<\/strong><\/span> may also point to why HUD tends to bury the free market solution offered by manufactured homes, vs. pushing for ever more federal subsidies for housing programs. After all, solving urban, suburban and rural housing needs <em>without federal tax dollars<\/em> <em>being spent<\/em> would reduce the need for HUD.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, allowing the free market use of manufactured homes to solve affordable housing needs would result in thousands of jobs &#8211; reducing poverty &#8211; and reduces federal subsidies unfairly going to competing housing options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justifying a Need<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Creating an agency was the result of a\u00a0perceived,\u00a0identified need. That identified problem had taxpayer dollars allocated to addressing that issue. And that created a demand, which was caused by a form of a taxpayer supported subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>As in the manufactured home example above, please note that the problem being addressed by government tends to cut off a free market solution to that same issue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13370\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13370\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PullingAtDollarsGraphicStockMHProNews.png\" alt=\"PullingAtDollarsGraphicStockMHProNews\" width=\"334\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PullingAtDollarsGraphicStockMHProNews.png 334w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PullingAtDollarsGraphicStockMHProNews-150x108.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> We noted above that the biggest competitor for manufactured housing (MH) today is arguably subsidized housing. Often, whoever has the more influential or powerful lobby, wins the tug-of-war over taxpayer dollars. That distorts the free marketplace. Are these among the factors that causes the MH solution to be buried at HUD? Image credit, MHProNews\/GraphicStock.<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Do we have a problem with affordable housing in the U.S. today? Yes. One can easily argue that the issue is best solved via free market created &#8211; quality and affordable &#8211; manufactured homes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/186312362\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Allowing the free market to work also creates a reward &#8211; which leads to job creation, and more prosperity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dilemma of Big Brother<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An element of hubris or shortsightedness involved in thinking that &#8216;big brother&#8217; government can be the go-to cure is the belief that something caused by a lapse in the moral order could be fixed by humans on a strictly secular level.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13358\" style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13358\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BigBortherIsWatchingYouMovie198CreditPandoraSocietyPostedMastheadBlogManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentaryMHProNews-575x342.png\" alt=\"BigBortherIsWatchingYouMovie198CreditPandoraSocietyPostedMastheadBlogManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentaryMHProNews\" width=\"404\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BigBortherIsWatchingYouMovie198CreditPandoraSocietyPostedMastheadBlogManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentaryMHProNews-575x342.png 575w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BigBortherIsWatchingYouMovie198CreditPandoraSocietyPostedMastheadBlogManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentaryMHProNews-150x89.png 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BigBortherIsWatchingYouMovie198CreditPandoraSocietyPostedMastheadBlogManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentaryMHProNews-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BigBortherIsWatchingYouMovie198CreditPandoraSocietyPostedMastheadBlogManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentaryMHProNews.png 981w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> Government in America involves a constant need to balance competing interests to achieve legitimate, constitutionally limited and defined goals. Still from the movie, 1984, based on the book of the same title, by George Orwell. Shared under fair use guidelines. <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fixing a moral lapse requires divine help. Thus, there is an innate need to routinely turn to faith for the solution. The purer and deeper the faith, the better the solutions and work outcome will be. We note this going into Holy Week for some 2.2 billion Christians worldwide, and the time of Passover for millions of Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient Christians taught a principle, &#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Ora et Labora<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">,<\/span><\/span>&#8221; &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Prayer and Work<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221; The Creator &#8211; perfectly knowing the principles cited herein &#8211; requires humans to <em>participate<\/em> in the effort of solving. In doing so, humans become co-creators, more like the Divine.<\/p>\n<p>Because the ancient Chinese proverb is right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<em><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Want less poverty and more prosperity?\u00a0 Work to get and keep government as limited as possible, and allow more faith-based and free market solutions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13357\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GiveSomeoneAFishFeedHimForADayTeachSomeoneHowToFishYouFeedThemForALifestimeManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentaryMHProNews396x291.png\" alt=\"GiveSomeoneAFishFeedHimForADayTeachSomeoneHowToFishYouFeedThemForALifestimeManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentaryMHProNews396x291\" width=\"396\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GiveSomeoneAFishFeedHimForADayTeachSomeoneHowToFishYouFeedThemForALifestimeManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentaryMHProNews396x291.png 396w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GiveSomeoneAFishFeedHimForADayTeachSomeoneHowToFishYouFeedThemForALifestimeManufacturedHousingIndustryCommentaryMHProNews396x291-150x110.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll apply and return to this principle of &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>whatever you subsidize, you get more of it<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; and related from time-to-time. ##<\/p>\n<p>See somewhat related articles, linked below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.MHProNews.com\/home\/featured-articles\/april-2017\/138-general-manufactured-housing-industry-topics\/13311-barry-and-be-the-change-doing-good-pays\" target=\"_blank\">Barry, and Doing Good Pays<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.MHProNews.com\/blogs\/industryvoices\/not-enough-hunger\/\" target=\"_blank\">Not Enough Hunger<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(Image credits are as shown above.)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13328\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13328\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LATonyKovachMHLivingNewsMHProNewsManufacturedHomeIndustryPublisherMarketingSalesTrainerConsultant--575x320.jpg\" alt=\"LATonyKovachMHLivingNewsMHProNewsManufacturedHomeIndustryPublisherMarketingSalesTrainerConsultant-\" width=\"409\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LATonyKovachMHLivingNewsMHProNewsManufacturedHomeIndustryPublisherMarketingSalesTrainerConsultant--575x320.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LATonyKovachMHLivingNewsMHProNewsManufacturedHomeIndustryPublisherMarketingSalesTrainerConsultant--150x83.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LATonyKovachMHLivingNewsMHProNewsManufacturedHomeIndustryPublisherMarketingSalesTrainerConsultant--768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LATonyKovachMHLivingNewsMHProNewsManufacturedHomeIndustryPublisherMarketingSalesTrainerConsultant--1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LATonyKovachMHLivingNewsMHProNewsManufacturedHomeIndustryPublisherMarketingSalesTrainerConsultant-.jpg 1198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/latonykovach.com\/recommendations-and-testimonials.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em>http:\/\/latonykovach.com\/recommendations-and-testimonials.php<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/latonykovach.com\/recommendations-and-testimonials.php\" target=\"_blank\">L. A. &#8216;Tony&#8217; Kovach<\/a>, publisher and industry consultant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a principle useful in understanding the true impact of a government intervention. It&#8217;s summed up in this simple phrase. &#8220;Whatever you subsidize, you tend to get more of it.&#8221; Subsidized corn? More corn is grown. Subsidized milk production or electricity generating wind turbines? 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