"What if there are limits to what governments can do beyond removing barriers to freedom? What if the best that we can hope for from our elected officials are policies that promote equal opportunity? What if public-policy makers risk creating more barriers to progress when the goal is the ever-elusive "equality as a result"? At what point does helping start hurting?"
Although the main idea of this book agrees with my opinion on government assistance, the book makes its arguments by being very anti-liberal. Jason L. Riley will make a great point using hard evidence and facts, and then throw in some liberal bashing. Instead of being against intrusive government assistance in general, the book makes sure that the reader knows that liberals are to blame. The sub title of the book is "How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed". After I get around the bias, I find that I am enjoying this book a lot; it really explains some troubles with modern day equality in an interesting way. This is a photo of Jason L. Riley on ABC, speaking on the events in Ferguson.
