[T]he welfare state rests on a very sandy foundation. It assumes there will always be something that can be looted from a productive class. Moreover, it assumes the productive class will continue to produce valuable goods and services even as they are being victimized. Pay-as-you-go entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare are built on this shaky assumption. It relies on the notion that future generations will rise to meet the claims of older generations. In other words, to use Ayn Rand’s metaphor, the welfare state assumes that the harder it presses down on Atlas’s shoulders, the harder Atlas will work to hold the world aloft.
Obama told Joe (the plumber) that "when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." We've never heard a better definition of Socialism. Relieving the producers of their earnings to reward those who have not worked for it is theft, pure and simple.
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