6 Replies to “Prager: The Welfare State teaches people to ‘want’ harder [Darleen Click]”

1. happyfeet says:

   May 9, 2012 at 10:30 pm

   I was just thinking I wonder what Dennis Prager thinks

2. Squid says:

   May 10, 2012 at 8:04 am

   I was just thinking

   If true, ‘twould be a miracle.

3. cranky-d says:

   May 10, 2012 at 11:22 am

   Keep on dreaming.

4. LBascom says:

   May 10, 2012 at 11:32 am

   I don’t know about socialism and entitlements making people more selfish, and capitalism less.

   People are born egocentric, selfish buggers, and growing up they learn a perspective of the world. If properly raised, they gain maturity, and are able to sustain themselves and contribute to society through their own enterprise and sense of duty to God, family and country. If raised improperly, maturity is not achieved. They remain dependent and self-centered.

   Grown ups get a job, a spouse, and grandchildren; through planning, choices, hard work, and personal sacrifices. Immature brats want comfort, sex love, and whatever they want when they want it, demand those things as basic human rights even, but they don’t want to make the hard personal choices necessary.

   Selfishness is a trait of immaturity, and a vice socialists exploit. That the people they attract want ever more entitlements is not because they have grown more selfish, but because they always have been.

5. batboy says:

   May 10, 2012 at 2:42 pm

   Ze Frank on thanks.

6. Alec Leamas says:

   May 10, 2012 at 9:19 pm

   LBascom:

   When you give people free shit beyond the point where they can, with effort, provide enough shit for themselves to get by, they become emotionally and psychologically dependent upon the free shit. Then they expect the free shit, and get really upset when you stop giving the free shit to them. Logically, they should have the opposite reaction, right? I mean, they should say to themselves “wow, thanks for all this free shit you’ve been giving me all this time.” Instead, they get resentfull and find a way to blame the giver of the free shit for not giving even more free shit to them. A large part of that has to be how the adult mind processes the whole free shit bonanza. You know that you shouldn’t be dependent upon other people’s free shit – that it’s a bad thing. But it gets so damned addictive, the free shit. So, because you think that you’re a good person, you have to come up with reasons why it is right and just that free shit appear out of nowhere when you want it. It doesn’t matter how stupid the reasons – you’ll believe anything that allows you to continue to think that you’re a good person and at the same time entitled to free shit. So, instead of spending your time learning how to get your own shit, and, as a result, having a reason to be proud of yourself, you wind up unhappy because you know that you haven’t amounted to much, no matter how much free shit you have gotten.

   I don’t know that the less free shit model (Capitalism) in and of itself makes people better per se; I rather think that the combination of the lack of free shit and the ability to get your own shit with effort makes people grow out of necessity.

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