We are all responsible for one another

The time is long overdue for optimistic Republicans to understand what FDR understood long ago, and what Barack Obama clearly understands today. Dependency pays off in votes – unless somebody alerts the taxpayers who get stuck with the bill.

The Obama administration is shamelessly advertising in the media – whether on billboards or on television – for people to get on food stamps. Welfare state bureaucrats have been sent into supermarkets to tell shoppers that food stamps are available.

The intelligentsia have for decades been promoting the idea that there should be no stigma to accepting government handouts. Living off the taxpayers is portrayed as a "right" or – more ponderously – as part of a "social contract."

Thomas Sowell

Depending on Dependency