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A Nation of Moochers

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by Sykes, Charles J.


  Homeland Security Compound

  Horowitz, Carl

  The Huffington Post

  on dependency culture

  on HAMP program

  Humphrey, Hubert

  Husock, Howard

  Immelt, Jeffrey

  incentive, work

  classes of jobs and

  EITC and

  health care reform and

  middle-class penalization and

  student loans and

  subsidization’s impediment to

  unemployment benefits’ impact on

  income, personal

  government as source of

  wage disparities and

  income tax. See also tax(es)

  EITC and

  liability for/exemptions of

  national debt’s tie to

  Indian River State College, Florida

  Institute for Policy Integrity

  insurance

  crop

  disaster

  health

  home

  unemployment

  worker’s compensation

  interest-only mortgages. See also mortgage loans

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS). See also tax(es)

  EITC and

  tax liability/exemptions and

  Internet/WiFi, theft of

  IRS. See Internal Revenue Service

  Jackson, Jesse, Sr.

  Jacoby, Jeff

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jester, Dan

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Theon

  J. P. Morgan Bank

  Kaiser Family Foundation

  Karlgaard, Rich

  Kass, Sam

  Katrina, Hurricane

  relief program fraud and

  Katz, Lawrence

  Kennedy, Edward

  kids (adult)

  food stamp use by

  mooching off parents by

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  Kling, Arnold

  Kristol, Bill

  Krueger, Alan

  Krugman, Paul

  Kudlow, Lawrence

  labor union(s)

  collective bargaining by

  pensions influenced by

  for public employees

  for teachers

  United Auto Workers

  Wisconsin government’s dispute with

  Lehman Brothers

  Lewis, Michael

  liar loans. See also mortgage loans

  liberalism, New Deal–era v. modern

  Lifeline program

  Lightbourn, George

  Lindsay, John

  Livestock Compensation Program

  lobbying, political

  bailout of 2008-09 and

  bailout of Chrysler and

  for ethanol subsidies

  green initiatives and

  regulation’s usefulness in

  salaries associated with

  tax favors resulting from

  Lockheed bailout

  Longboat Keys, Florida, flooding in

  Los Angeles Times

  Lowenstein, Roger

  Lowry, Rich

  MacArthur Foundation

  Mac Donald, Heather

  Madison, Wisconsin

  Magida, Sarah

  Magnet, Myron

  Mak, Gerry

  Manos, Stefanos

  Marks, Bruce

  marriages

  Martin, Steve

  Marx, Karl

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  Massachusetts, moviemaking credits in

  Matthews, Donald R.

  McCampbell, Roy

  McCloskey, Deirdre N.

  McWatters, Mark J.

  meal programs, school

  agricultural programs tied to

  hunger statistics and

  job performances tied to

  necessity of

  nutrition statistics and

  obesity and

  stigma associated with

  Meany, George

  Medicaid

  births funded by

  cost of/spending on

  health care bills’ impact on

  recipient statistics for

  Medicare

  cost of/spending on

  fraud related to

  recipient statistics for

  reform of

  Meggs, Willie

  Mendel, Ed

  Mequon-Thiensville, Wisconsin, school meals in

  Merrill Lynch

  Meyer, Bruce

  Mian, Atif

  Michigan, unemployment in

  Microsoft

  Middlebrooke, Hannah

  Middlebrooke, Matthew

  middle-class earners

  health care reform’s squeeze on

  student loan qualification/repayment and

  tax breaks lost by

  welfare qualification and

  Milwaukee, Wisconsin, public employees in

  Miniter, Brendan

  MIT. See Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  moocher mentality. See also incentive, work; redistribution of wealth concept; subsidies, parental; subsidy/entitlement programs, government

  checklist defining

  compassion impacted by

  competency assumptions tied to

  dismantling of

  in Great Britain

  incentive to work and

  by kids (adult)

  liberalism’s ties to

  moral dilemmas related to

  by parents

  personal responsibility perception and

  redistribution of wealth and

  stigma perception and

  Moore, Stephen

  morality

  dilemmas related to

  mortgage defaults and

  national debt–related

  Morgan Stanley

  mortgage loans

  abandonment of

  CDSs tied to

  CRA’s impact on

  high-risk

  modification of

  recession’s relation to

  regulation of

  securities made up of

  underwater

  Mother Jones

  moviemaking subsidies

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

  Mubarak, Hosni

  National Bureau of Economic Research

  National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)

  National Community Reinvestment Coalition

  national debt

  under Bush, George W.

  estimates for future

  income taxes tied to

  marginalization of

  morality and

  National Education Association

  National Flood Insurance Program

  National Legal and Policy Center

  National Wildlife Federation

  A Nation of Victims (Sykes)

  NCCP. See National Center for Children in Poverty

  “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action” (Moynihan)

  Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America

  Network on Transitions to Adulthood (MacArthur Foundation)

  Never Enough (Voegeli)

  New Deal programs

  New Jersey

  public employees in

  Turnpike

  New Trier Township, Illinois, pensions in

  New York City, New York, welfare in

  The New Yorker

  New York magazine

  on government bailout

  The New York Times

  on corporate lobbying

  on disaster relief

  on familial mooching

  on food stamp use

  on government bailouts

  on mortgage defaults

  on moviemaking subsidies

  on national debt

  on real estate bubble

  on WiFi theft

  New York University law school

  NINJA mortgages. See also mortgage loan
s

  Nixon, Richard

  Northwestern University Kellogg School

  Northwest Florida State College

  Norton, Eleanor

  Notes on Virginia (Jefferson)

  Nozick, Robert

  Obama, Barack

  antihomelessness grants by

  bailout of 2008-09 and

  budgets/spending by

  corporate favoritism and

  green initiatives and

  health care reform by

  high-speed rail plan by

  public employees and

  unemployment benefits under

  Obamacare. See health care reform bills

  Olick, Diana

  Oliver, Brian

  Olson, Mancur

  Onyango, Zeituni

  O’Rourke, P. J.

  Oxford University

  Pacific University, Oregon

  parental moochers

  Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. See also health care reform bills

  Paulson, Henry

  Pemberton, Alex

  Penn Central bailout

  Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

  pensions

  backdrop payments and

  double-dipping related to

  in Greece

  labor unions’ influence on

  myths associated with

  of public employees

  scandals associated with

  Pfizer

  The Philadelphia Inquirer

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, school meal programs in

  Phoenix, Arizona, public employees in

  Pippen, Scott

  Piven, Frances Fox

  pork spending

  Portland State University, Oregon

  Posner, Richard

  Poterba, James

  poverty

  causes of

  definitions of

  hunger statistics related to

  property ownership related to

  risk factors for

  wealth redistribution’s impact on

  Princeton University

  public employees

  disparities between private and

  labor unions of

  myths associated with

  number statistics on

  pensions/benefits of

  salaries of

  scandal associated with

  in Wisconsin

  public housing. See home(s)

  Pueblo, Colorado, school meals in

  race

  dependency culture and

  deterioration of family and

  Rand, Ayn

  Rangel, Charles B.

  Rank, Mark R.

  Rauh, Joshua

  Rawls, John

  Reagan, Ronald

  Reboyras, Susan

  recession of 2007. See also bailout of 2008-09; mortgage loans

  causes of

  dependency on government impacted by

  Rector, Robert

  Red Cross

  redistribution of wealth concept

  examples of

  individual rights as issue in

  need v. merit in

  poverty impacted by

  Reid, Harry

  Republican Party, campaign donations to

  The Rise and Decline of Nations (Olson)

  Rita, Hurricane

  Ritholtz, Barry

  Rockefeller, David

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Ross, Karen

  Ross, Kelly L.

  Royer, Greg

  Roy, Robin

  Rubin, Robert

  Rubinstein, Helen

  Rutkowski, Rick

  Ryan, Paul

  The Sacramento Bee

  Safelink subsidy

  St. Petersburg Times

  on mortgage defaults

  on pensions

  Salon.com

  Samuelson, Robert

  Sanders, Beulah

  San Francisco, California

  social service spending in

  Sapienza, Paola

  Schmidtz, David

  on redistribution of wealth concept

  Schoeni, Robert

  schools. See educational subsidy programs; meal programs, school; student loans

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold

  The Seattle Times

  Securities and Exchange Commission

  Seligman, Martin

  Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry

  Serious Materials

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe

  Shue, Henry

  Siegel, Fred

  on dependent individualism

  on welfare explosion

  Simmons, Leon

  Simpson, Alan

  sit/lie ordinance (San Francisco)

  SJR Farms, California

  Skinner, Richard L.

  S&L crisis

  Social Democratic Party

  Social Security

  cost of/spending on

  reform of

  unemployment benefits’ impact on

  The Social Network (movie)

  Sowell, Thomas

  spending

  by Bush, George W.

  on food stamps

  on health service subsidies

  on Medicaid

  on Medicare

  by Obama

  pork

  on Social Security

  on social services, San Francisco

  statistics on

  on welfare

  Steyn, Mark

  stigma of dependency

  agricultural subsidies and

  food stamps and

  liberalism’s impact on

  meal programs, school, and

  mortgage defaults and

  political power and

  recession’s impact on

  Stockman, David

  Stossel, John

  on agricultural subsidies

  on corporate mooching

  student loans

  financial aid qualification and

  middle-class penalization in

  repayment of

  subprime mortgages. See also mortgage loans

  subsidies, parental

  financial

  insurance dependency age and

  living at home and

  revenue loss related to

  subsidy/entitlement programs, government. See also moocher mentality; specific programs

  agricultural

  antihomelessness

  Cash for Clunkers and

  for cell phones

  for childcare

  competency assumptions tied to

  converter boxes, television, and

  corporate

  for disaster relief

  educational/school-related

  for ethanol

  food stamps and

  GI Bill and

  health service–related

  home/housing-related

  incentive to work and

  lobbying for/favoritism in

  meal programs, school, and

  for moviemaking

  national debt impacted by

  pork spending and

  public employees and

  reform of

  Social Security and

  tax credits and

  unemployment and

  for upper-class/wealthy

  welfare and

  worker’s compensation and

  Sufi, Amir

  Summers, Lawrence

  TARP. See Troubled Asset Relief Program

  tax(es)

  deficit’s relation to

  exemptions from

  fraud related to

  income

  tax credits

  corporate

  Earned Income

  for homes

  Making Work Pay

  middle-class penalization in

  for moviemaking

  refundable

  transferable

  Tax Foundation

  Tea Par
ty

  Thatcher, Margaret

  Time Warner Cable

  The Town (movie)

  TracFone

  Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (House)

 

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