John Derbyshire writes of the return to "Paleolithic standards of idleness" here.
This might indicate why we have vastly increased rates of leisure, with a disturbing graph showing the federal budget increasingly be used--albeit "only" around 18% of the total, but up sharply since the mid 1960s--on entitlements to individuals. Robbing Peter (at the point of a gun, which is what taxes are) to pay Paul. How's that promote "social justice"? I increasingly feel victimized as one of William Graham Sumner's "forgotten men."
My mom retired from as a postmaster Friday with a local post office and, even though becoming a hard-core left-of-center voter after her divorce with my father--she supported Howard Dean before The Scream, for example--she's become sick of the knowledge she's gained how many people get money from the gubmit, even when they're capable though unwilling to work.
Whenever I get sick of paying the taxes that increasingly go to people not working as hard as I, I need to realize the following: people are much happier supporting themselves by the sweat of their brow, as AEI's Arthur Brooks has persuasively written, not sitting around on their protuberant behinds scheming how to beat the system.
This might indicate why we have vastly increased rates of leisure, with a disturbing graph showing the federal budget increasingly be used--albeit "only" around 18% of the total, but up sharply since the mid 1960s--on entitlements to individuals. Robbing Peter (at the point of a gun, which is what taxes are) to pay Paul. How's that promote "social justice"? I increasingly feel victimized as one of William Graham Sumner's "forgotten men."
My mom retired from as a postmaster Friday with a local post office and, even though becoming a hard-core left-of-center voter after her divorce with my father--she supported Howard Dean before The Scream, for example--she's become sick of the knowledge she's gained how many people get money from the gubmit, even when they're capable though unwilling to work.
Whenever I get sick of paying the taxes that increasingly go to people not working as hard as I, I need to realize the following: people are much happier supporting themselves by the sweat of their brow, as AEI's Arthur Brooks has persuasively written, not sitting around on their protuberant behinds scheming how to beat the system.
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