Dependency, the Liberals' Natural Resource

The American Thinker ^ | July 5, 2010 | Robert Weissberg

[Scanian]

Decades back, when I studied geography in third grade, a nation's wealth was depicted by natural resources on maps -- little coffee cups in Brazil, diamonds in South Africa, and oil derricks in Arabia. Industrial production then replaced raw materials -- a tiny car in Detroit. And years later, the great wealth-generating natural resource was brainpower, so third-graders might see pictures of mortarboard-attired college graduates in Cambridge, MA.

But a radically new wealth-generating natural resource has emerged, one especially favored by the Obama administration. This is dependency, in which recipients of government largess evolve from an unwelcome tax-eating burden to a job-creating assets. No wonder many Americans welcome troublesome immigrants. It is almost as if the 1849 Gold Rush days are here again, but instead of prospectors panning for nuggets at Sutter's Creek, entrepreneurs are packing their minivans, formulating grant proposals, sharpening resumes, and rushing to Arizona to strike it rich by "mining" newly discovered clients.

A Heritage Foundation report shows that thanks to multiple government programs, the proportion of Americans in some way dependent on government largess has suddenly jumped by 31.2% since 2001 after decades of much slower increases. Even in inflation-adjusted dollars, America now spends thirteen times more on public welfare than it did in 1965.

[edzo4]

Let’s stop calling them democrats and liberals let’s just call them what they are: victims
They are always playing the victim card its always someone elses fault

[libertylover]

They’re not victims. They’re moochers.

[MrB]

This is the theme of Coulter’s “Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America “

[Walrus]

They are looters and they use guilt as their weapon.

Say it now: “I swear by my life, the one I love, that I will live for no man, nor will I ask any man to live for me.”