Circling the Drain » money http://www.circlingthedrain.com this is the way the world ends Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:19:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Shame Stamps http://www.circlingthedrain.com/2009/11/29/shame-stamps/ http://www.circlingthedrain.com/2009/11/29/shame-stamps/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:31:29 +0000 Klaus http://www.circlingthedrain.com/?p=102
Idiot.

Idiot.

According to National Review writer (and self-styled philanthropist) John J. Miller, a little shame is good medicine for the one-in-eight Americans currently taking advantage of state welfare:

The federal government may think it’s doing people a favor by providing them with access to food, but it’s doing them a disservice if it also robs them of the motivation necessary to break free from dependency.

(via National Review Online)

What are you going to do with the poor! First they single-handedly crash the economy, then they immediately start asking for bailouts. Says Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, “Food stamps is quasi money.” They is indeed. Not to mention the fact that every penny leeched by the needy takes away from another executive’s bonus money, meaning that this country may soon be at risk of suffering an executive incentive deficit.

(via NYT)

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