text: Socialist Entitlements
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  "Give a chap government health care, government-paid vacation, government funded early retirement, and all the other benefits, and the last thing he’ll care about is what it means for society as a whole."
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  "People’s sense of entitlement endures long after the entitlement has ceased to make sense. And, if it bankrupts the entire state a generation from now, so what?"
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  "In his pithiest maxim, John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the 20th-century social-democratic state and the patron saint of “stimulus,” offered a characteristically offhand dismissal of any obligation to the future: “In the long run we are all dead.”
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  .  -  Big government to bankruptcy - by Mark Steyn - National Post - Aug 24, 2011
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  excerpted from his book "After America : get ready for Armageddon"