Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:01:36 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>> On 2/27/2019 10:28 AM, GM wrote:
>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> A fuller and more mature notion of citizenship would be one that holds, as ours once did, that among the first duties of the citizen is to provide for himself and look after his family so as not to burden his neighbors unnecessarily. The rhetoric of benefits as rights cultivates just the opposite attitude, one of learned helplessness, not in response to extraordinary challenges but in the face of the ordinary business of life. That attitude of helplessness is of great benefit to a certain stripe of politician. It is not good for people or countries.
>>>
>>> And it isnt really characteristic of the Scandinavian societies that Senator Sanders thinks he admires..."
>>>
>> I especially like that simple explanation. Take responsibility for
>> yourself and family.
> People in Scandinavian countries are much better off than people in
> the US. They must be doing something right.

Sure. They don't pay 50 billion in foreign aid.

https://explorer.usaid.gov/aid-dashboard.html#2018