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Bankruptcy, and bankruptcy alone.

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Cutting back $2,500 a month in combined benefits and subsidies to $2300 a month is always seen as far more heartless and cruel than not in the first place giving someone without subsidies a mere $200 a month. For every dollar taken, two are demanded. And that creates a powerful constituency for whom the shrillest rhetoric of oppression is, well, never too shrill. Revolutions are not fueled by the very poor seeking their daily bread, but by those on entitlements that revolt at the thought of less to come. A rioting Greek today is far better off than his parents in 1973 when I first arrived in the country; and he would remain far better off even under an "austerity" plan. But his expectations have soared geometrically with each euro received, and he now has convinced himself that not to have more is to have nothing.

History is not kind to such collective states of mind. Pay an Athenian in the fifth century BC a subsidy to go to the theater; and in the fourth century BC he is demanding such pay to vote in the assembly as well — and there is not to be a third century free democratic polis. Extend to a Roman in the first century BC a small grain dole, and by the late first century AD he cannot live without a big dole, free entertainment in a huge new Coliseum, and disbursements of free coined money. Let the emperor Justinian try cutting back the bloated bureaucracy in sixth century AD Constantinople and he wins the Nika riots that almost destroy a civilization from within even as it is beset by hosts of foreign enemies.

Social Security started out as a few dollars a month to the elderly, in their last two or three years of life, to ensure that they could feed themselves without the indignity of borrowing from their children. It has morphed into someone living well for twenty years on far more money taken than was put in — or a young family with a dyslexic child on "disability" for life. To cut any for the latter would cause far more riot and mayhem than not to have given the former anything in the first place — despite the fact that the 21st century recipient was far less needy and got far more than the early 20th century recipient who needed more and got less.

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http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/there-are-no-socialists/2/

VDH pravi ogromnu i grubu gresku: to nije collectivist vec krajnje selfish/sebicni state of mind.

Francuzi, pokajtesja. Mrakobijesno:

http://www.b92.net/zivot/vesti.php?yyyy=2011&mm=07&dd=27&nav_id=528213

То је капитализам у свом најбољем издању.

Pa u Holandiji svako ko je na socijali u Maju dobije duplo (1800 umesto 900 eura) to je "vakantie geld" odnosno novac za godisnji odmor. A imaju i pravo da naglase 4 nedelje da idu na odmor pa ih socijala ne cima na kontrole itd.