Anytime a government is giving you free stuff, they took your money and are giving part of it back to you.

For example:

My wife’s relatives in Denmark can’t wait to brag about free education and medical care and how much better it is than the US. They spend a lot of time trying to make their country better by bringing down the US (especially to me), only it’s not.

They always shop here as it is half the price like a lot of the EU.

I casually mention that they pay 70% income taxes and then VAT on that for their medical care. OBTW, you have to wait 6 weeks for a Dr’s appointment there and I had a kid who went to school there.

I got in to the Dr the same day 2 weeks ago.

I had a daughter go to school there.

The education in socialist countries was at least a year behind where she was in the US, so she didn’t have to work that hard. She was taking courses in her sophomore year that she took as a freshman.

Now for the US. Bernie loved to compare the US to Scandinavian systems.

The group of individuals trying to suck free stuff out of the US government are now prisoners of the very same. Working and doing what you want with your own resources is freedom. Very few actually need the handouts, or only need it a little while to get back on their feet.

Our government (the half currently in charge) wants as many people as possible on the dole. They control the people who take their money. How is this not a form of indentured servitude? Money for votes.

The administration before produced the lowest unemployment for all races and genders. That is freedom and that is the American Dream.