[Skybird]

In general I think it is no healthy thing to maintain what is unproductive, and that is true for people as well. As I think Roosevelt the first said, the great potential of America is that every man going there is willing and capable to pull his own weight, in these or quite similar words he put it. And I think there is some principle truth in it, a truth that was not new when he said it, but can be seen in millenia of human cultural development.

It just irks me that I should contribute to the payment of somebody who makes it his living model to abuse the others. This alreaedy is the case today, but still many people shy away from openly celebrating it. With this new general national income, it becomes state doctrine, however. And that is quite a raise in reputation and prestige.

For as long as it lasts.

There aint no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody gotta pay the bill. I may be willing to help out on those who are disabled or too old, but I refuse to pay for anybody who makes it his living model to parasitically abuse me and suck my blood. If somebody can afford to not work and live by his own means, okay. But if somebdy does not work in order to live at the costs of others, I flatten my ears and raise my flews.

And I wonder about what this new mentality will mean for economical competitveness. The European enthusiasm for weakening oneself is not shared in other parts fo the world, in China, Japan, Korea and the likes. When the European economy is no more capable to maintain all these highflying social plans - then what...? Currently, it is right this captialism that Catfish dispises so much that keeps it all financed, although 75% and ore of the free market already gets gagged and reglated and drwoned in bureaucracy. This shows how vital capitalism nevertheless is.

But even capitalism is not unbreakable.