Thursday, October 17, 2024

A Parable of the Welfare State? | Power Line

A Parable of the Welfare State? | Power Line - by Steven Hayward in Welfare
The New York Times ran what I am sure they thought was just a mildly amusing human interest story a few days back:
The Washington State resident fed some friendly critters for years. Then, their mean friends turned up.
For more than 35 years, a woman in Washington State would leave some food in her yard for about a dozen resident raccoons...
  • We are—or should be—familiar with the warnings at Yellowstone and other national parks not to feed the wildlife because it makes them fat and dependent. 
  • Why isn’t this lesson applied to humans who become dependent on public assistance, and who over time become surly with entitlement to public assistance?

No comments: