Monday, December 10, 2012

Barone: Soul-crushing dependency

Michael Barone  " “This is painful for a liberal to admit,” writes liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, “but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in soul-crushing dependency.”

"Kristof is writing from Breathitt County, Ky., deep in the Appalachian mountains, about mothers whose Supplemental Security Income benefits will decrease if their children learn to read. Kristof notes that 55% of children qualifying for SSI benefits do so because of “fuzzier intellectual disabilities short of mental retardation,” far more than four decades ago when SSI was just a new program."....
Via Instapundit, along with this companion piece about "government cheese" that declares the government will turn not just Americans but third world populations all into beggars because "they're easier to please""

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