When I was a boy, about 10 years old, the country were in the heart of the Great Depression. It had started with the stock market fall in in '29.
I heard from one of the other kids that the government was giving away free flour. I went to the location the kid told me about with my red wagon and obtained a 24 1/2 pound bag of flour, which I then took home. I proudly presented it to my mother and was surprised and disappointed at her reaction. She said, "we don't accept charity. Take it back".
Times have changed. It appears that the general public no longer believes in pride of personal accomplishment. Current attitude is more like grab it while you can. We are entitled to free stuff. The government is a sucker and won't even bother to check when we fleece it.
This is demonstrated by an announcement by the Washington Times, which recently said, "Obamacare hits 2.5 million enrollees; officials say that doesn’t count ‘extremely busy’ weekend".
Apparently, 2 1/2 million Americans have signed up for free stuff. Well, not exactly free stuff, but at a significant discount to what private insurance companies can offer. Why the low-cost? Simple. Taxpayers bear the brunt of the deficit. What the Obama care enrollee over-draws in benefits compared to what he pays in premiums is picked up by taxpayers. In other words, a redistribution of wealth. It's the same as persons adjusting their income so that when they file their tax returns the IRS pays them rather than charging a tax.
With this decline in moral values, what is the incentive to work? Work is hard. It has special requirements, such as you have to be there on time and do what the boss says. There will come a time when essentially everybody will cave into the acceptance of free stuff without responsibility. At that point, we will be on an accelerated slide to product and service insufficiency, followed by riots and general anarchy as we have seen recently with the Blacks.
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