Posted on 10/12/2014 10:08:49 AM PDT by Rusty0604
Dependency: A Brazilian economist has shown a near-exact correlation between last Sunday's presidential election voting choices and each state's welfare ratios. Sure enough, handouts are the lifeblood of the left.
Virtually every state that went for Rousseff has at least 25% of the population dependent on Brazil's Bolsa Familia welfare program of cash for single mothers, given for keeping children vaccinated and in school.
States with less than 25% of the population on Bolsa Familia overwhelmingly went for Neves and his policies of growth.
And whether it's best for a country that aspires to become a global economic powerhouse to have a quarter of the population — 50 million people — dependent on welfare and producing nothing is questionable.
Fact is, the left cannot survive without a vast class of dependents. And once in, dependents have difficulty getting out.
So Brazil's election may come down to a question of whether it wants to be a an economic powerhouse — or a handout republic.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Just wait until another generation born to people who don’t know what is work grows up near you.
Welfare is the lifeblood of the politician.
Bag Families?
Now, that there’s funny!
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