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...