{"id":25,"date":"2012-09-18T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2012\/09\/18\/the-culture-of-dependency-argument-for-cutting-benefits\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T08:37:00","slug":"the-culture-of-dependency-argument-for-cutting-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2012\/09\/18\/the-culture-of-dependency-argument-for-cutting-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;culture of dependency&#8221; argument for cutting benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>David Brookes in NY Times on Romney&#8217;s latest gaffe.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>The final thing the comment suggests is that Romney knows nothing about  ambition and motivation. The formula he sketches is this: People who are  forced to make it on their own have drive. People who receive benefits  have dependency.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>But, of course, no middle-class parent acts as if this is true.  Middle-class parents don\u2019t deprive their children of benefits so they  can learn to struggle on their own. They shower benefits on their  children to give them more opportunities \u2014 so they can play travel  sports, go on foreign trips and develop more skills.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>People are motivated when they feel competent. They are motivated when  they have more opportunities. Ambition is fired by possibility, not by  deprivation, as a tour through the world\u2019s poorest regions makes clear.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/18\/opinion\/brooks-thurston-howell-romney.html?smid=tw-nytdavidbrooks&amp;seid=auto&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Discuss. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brookes in NY Times on Romney&#8217;s latest gaffe. The final thing the comment suggests is that Romney knows nothing about ambition and motivation. The formula he sketches is this: People who are forced to make it on their own have drive. People who receive benefits have dependency.\u00a0 But, of course, no middle-class parent acts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}