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Permalink Reply by Chip on November 17, 2012 at 9:06am

A key word that has come to be associated with the taker or entitlement mentality is “deserve,” as in “I deserve” or “everyone deserves” certain goods. Politicians like to lecture on the things Americans “deserve” to have – free universal health care, affordable housing, or a functional economy are often mentioned. Work and the idea of earning things isn’t mentioned, yet all the things that others deserve are usually paid for right out of taxpayers’ pockets, with money taken away from the useful economy to be funneled through the hands of government and redistributed in ways that often make no sense at all.

Part and parcel with this has been the rise of groups of people who believe they deserve to have certain things and a certain kind of life – totally independent of any effort on their own part. They don’t work or contribute, but they expect to get regular paychecks and handouts from the government. While there may be certain individuals helped by government support, many others have figured out how to game the system to live comfortably off public assistance of one form or another for their whole lives.

Basically, these people are leeches – and they’re starting to outnumber the productive, contributing members of society. As a result, there’s not enough money flowing into government coffers to let the game continue. Yes, governments can print money and borrow, but there are limits to that sort of thing – you can only go so far before hyperinflation sets in or you get overthrown. In a quest to stay in power, governments around the world are reluctantly turning to austerity.
http://www.offthegridnews.com/2012/10/16/the-link-between-leeches-a...

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Oakley on November 17, 2012 at 1:17pm

The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward (1926–2001) and Frances Fox Piven (b. 1932) that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty". Cloward and Piven were a married couple who were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in liberal^[1] magazine The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty".^[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy

Do all of our current problems trace back to 60's radicals?

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Permalink Reply by Nathan on November 18, 2012 at 5:19pm

Do all of our current problems trace back to 60's radicals?

It does seem that way at first glance, Nancy.

Have you noticed the failure of logic in the C-P plan? It assumes that what will replace the current system is what they envision. Cloward-Piven are in the ranks of the 'useful-idiots' :)

 

“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.” Thomas More

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