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Old 06-04-2008, 10:00 PM   #1272
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The point is that government entitlement programs make people less self-resilient and they start expecting the government to look out for them.

Unemployment is a by-product of that.
If that were so, you'd expect countries with more entitlement programs to be less economically prosperous, no? I haven't seen a shred of evidence that this is the case--and indeed, indications are that there is no such relationship. If unemployment is an indicator, as you implied, then the evidence for that claim is pretty weak.
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