The Fantasy of Government Dependency

After a bad week for Mitt Romney,which seems now to be a cliche to say these days, a lot of discussion about the "moochers" government aide has surfaced. Mitt Romney says he can not reach a certain 47% of the electorate because President Obama has solidify that portion through government aide, so they will never vote for him

I wish that were true only for the fact that if it was, the president would be up by 30 points, and Mitt would have to kiss the south goodbye as Dylan Matthews points out in the Washington post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/18/mitt-romney-will-probably-get-95-electoral-votes-from-moocher-states-obama-will-probably-get-5/

This idea of government systematically making people dependent of them for political gain is simply not true. Majority of the Republican base receives some type of government aide, but completely opposed to the idea of government doing anything for anybody.

Generalizing people who receive aide as people who just want to settle with dependency is simply not true. Case in point to my general readers, mostly college students. Financial aide and tuition helps those who usually wouldn't have the opportunity to gain higher learning. It simply stand as a helping hand to society doing better for its self.

Yes, there are people who milk the system. But there's nothing that some type of reform can't solve.Completely erasing the system would only make things worst. Demonizing who ever have is simply turning your back on half the country.