What the Dutch apparently understand is that, in the long run, welfare dependency hurts the very people it is designed to help. Making poverty a bit more comfortable may be satisfying in the short term, but the real goal should be to reduce the number of people in poverty. To do that requires people to take more responsibility for their own lives. That’s a lesson in European compassion that the U.S. could learn from.
Posted on: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:33:08 +0000
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