He whose ideas persevere the longest, wins. One area where we can put Kuhn into practice is in the area of welfare reform. The GOP chalked up a huge win a few years back when it allowed welfare to peter on, nearly the same as before. That won t do, and George Grant agrees. His book, Bringing in the Sheaves , doesn t argue about benefit-limits and unfunded mandates.
Grant proposes welfare be completely replaced by complex systems of voluntary charity.
And beyond that, he tells how to do it. Bringing in the Sheaves is an action manual to both mitigate the curse of poverty and stomp out the welfare state. Furthermore, Grant knows whereof he speaks. He has spent much of his career working with the poor, helping to turn poverty in to productivity and prosperity. His methods work and, if implemented on a mass scale, could revolutionize social policy in America.