Agree 100%.
And, isn't that what is happening now with world welfare? The U.N. runs a trumped-up fundraising drive practically every month trying to make America (and some others) feel guilty about not throwing more $$$ to the third world.
Look at what is happening as we speak. The G-7 meeting has the G-7 agreeing to forgive the debt to the tune of about $100 billion. The more we pump into global welfare, the larger the black hole becomes.
You are dead on target, and it is happening globally as well as in the U.S. Our children and grandchildren will inherit a poor nation bordering on third world status the way we are destroying our treasury.
Yup. One thing that has happened in our society is the idea of personal responsibility towards people in particular has been replaced by impersonal responsibility towards people in general. You can ignore your aged parents, divorce a perfectly good spouse and abandon or abort your children, in the name of the pursuit of happiness. But if you balk at paying more and more to support strangers, even strangers who have brought their problems upon themselves ... well, that's the height of selfishness and lack of compassion. You are a BAD person! Impersonal charity has been expanded from you and I supporting an old lady in Oregon to supporting an old lady in Outer Mongolia. The military is already being starved, as you have pointed out, in order to pay for social welfare schemes. Sooner or later, the well will run dry. Who will help us? No one, I think.