Professor Richard Ebeling brought "Pauperism: Its causes and Remedies" to my attention in a post on his Facebook page while commenting on a video about a British mother encouraging her daughter to get pregnant and get on the dole.

He noted: This is "a mentality that has grown in our societies of a presumption that living totally or partially at the expense of others through government redistribution is as legitimate and as acceptable as earning a living through working at a job at which someone has agreed to pay you for work done.

"Hence, the farmer who considers that taking a farm price support benefit or being paid not to grow crops on a part or all his land is as legitimate as selling a crop on the market.

"Or that signing up for a government subsidy to cover a part of one's costs of production is as legitimate as developing cost efficiencies within the firm to stay competitive on the market.

"It is a mind set that sees no practical or ethical distinction between getting what one wants through peaceful, voluntary exchange and the coercive arm of the government. (That is, at others', the taxpayers', expense.)

"The classical economist, Henry Fawcett, wrote about this in the 1870s in his book on, "Pauperism: Its Causes and Remedies."

"He pointed out that under the old poor laws, three generations of families had all become dependent on government parish (welfare) payments, and had come to believe they had a "right" to it. What today we call the "entitlement" mentality."

This was all known back in the 1870's folks.

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