Cultures of Dependency

Whether Kenyan or Teabilly, we can all agree that government should discourage their proliferation as much as possible, that while a generous social safety net is needed to provide relief for the elderly and infirm, the Republic is best served when government rewards the dynamic market forces of creativity, industry and foresight at the expense of laziness, sloth and bad judgment. The freedom to succeed, after all, also implies freedom to fail! Because otherwise, you end up with a nation of welfare moochers who drain the Republic of much-needed resources and who eventually consider themselves "entitled" to things they haven't honestly earned. I guess the point at which both sides diverge in the discussion is over whether to limit the definition of "welfare sponges" to a bunch of shiftless blah people spending their government handouts on Kool Milds and Olde English 800, or whether we should apply a more universal, all-encompassing benchmark.

---Baron V