A country where the people who by necessity must work to survive, draws from a much wider percentage of the populace those who have the ability to engender an entrepreneur culture... It's very easy in the USA to live off free government dole and so that enormous portion of the populace is effectively unmotivated to work at anything.... and I quote : "The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load."

Thomas Sowell