[pieceofthepuzzle]

People like Saunders seem to have a very simplistic and inaccurate world view in which people are divided up into Scrooges and Tiny Tims. If you have accumulated financial stability and make a good income, even though based upon your own hard work, you are a Scrooge, and thus must ‘give’ more. If you don't have financial stability, and perhaps don't work at all, even if this is because of recurrently bad personal choices or lack of ambition or initiative, you are automatically Tiny Tim, and deserve access to the money of the Scrooges.

Of course, people like Saunders want to be paid off the public dole, and get great credit as humanitarians, while they decide how best to redistribute the earnings/wealth of those he labels Scrooges.

[SES1066]

Of course, people like Saunders want to be paid off the public dole, and get great credit as humanitarians, while they decide how best to redistribute the earnings/wealth of those he labels Scrooges.

This is where Sen. Sanders intersects with Dr. Milton Friedman's "Spending Matrix" and demonstrates why Government 'Spending' is the most spendthrift of all! Dr. Friedman developed (or made famous) the following spending guidelines in sequence of descending care and stewardship;

1) Spend your own money on yourself.
2) Spend your own money on somebody else.
3) Spend somebody else's money on yourself.
4) Spend somebody else's money on somebody else.

Obviously #4 is Government and an EMPHATIC example is the LBJ "War on Poverty" that has spent TRILLIONS with the poverty rate, over the 50 years, being little changed! However the social matrix with bad behavior being effectively rewarded (Out-of-wedlock births) has, IMHO, deteriorated society!