What has caused more long term destruction ??

• What has caused more long term destruction - the A-bomb,
  or
  Government welfare programs created to buy the votes
  
  
  
  of those who want someone to take care of them?
  
  Japan does not have a welfare system.
  
  Work for it or do without.
  
  These are possibly the 5 best sentences
  you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
  
  1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity
  
  
  
  by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
  
  2. What one person receives without working for,
  
  
  
  another person must work for without receiving.
  
  3. The government cannot give to anybody anything
  
  
  
  that the government does not first take from somebody else.
  
  4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
  
  5. When half of the people get the idea that they
  
  
  
  do not have to work because the other half
  
  
  
  is going to take care of them, and when the other half
  
  
  
  gets the idea that it does no good to work
  
  
  
  because somebody else is going to get
  
  
  
  what they work for, that is the beginning
  
  
  
  of the end of any nation.
  
  
  
  Whileall this is true, it is necessary toextend
  
  a helping hand
  
  to a person in genuine need,
  
  only to help him/herself,
  
  Whether it results in encouraging "ability" or
  
  perpetuates "disability" would depend on
  
  the character and the hidden agenda
  
  of both the donor and the recipient.