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How Government Handouts Create Life-Sapping Dependency

Ned6 Wrote: Feb 08, 2013 1:46 PM

Government sets the rules by which the people play. A smart businessman could game the system for his employees, by reducing all salaries between $29K-69K to $29K, and then hiring a PhD in Benefits to get his employees all the benefits and more than they deserve. They would improve their net income, while he would improve his bottom line. This reminds me of a situation in Russia, where farmers were feeding animals loaves of bread rather than raw grain, because of the subsidies for bread. Animals got fat, while shelves in the markets were bare.

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How Government Handouts Create Life-Sapping Dependency

Remember Julia, the mythical moocher created by the Obama campaign to show the joys of government dependency? As illustrated by this Ramirez cartoon, Julia symbolizes the entitlement mentality.

Unfortunately, there are many real-life Julias.

I wrote a couple of years ago about Olga, a Greek woman who petulantly believed that government was responsible for her empty life.

But we don’t know any details about Olga other than her desire to mooch, so the best...

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