When more than half the people are living off the others, you have an unsustainable situation.

And the other aspect of redistributionism (socialism), is that the incentive to improve yoour own situation, for yourself and your loved ones, declines.

There is also the competition for government largesse, because the government seizes the assets and reapportions them out according to the government’s own will. That breeds envy, distrust, and even hatred.

These effects of redistributionism are well known, and proven over and over again. Look at the hatred rising towards the UAW, auto workers, and in fact, everyone associated with the auto industry; and that is just one example. The envy and distrust is built into redistributionism via human nature. It is incredibly corrosive.

And, by the way, it leads right to another plug for Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand nailed all of this fifty years ago. You’d be horrified and fascinated if you were to read that book these days, while contemplating what is Obama-arriving for us, as more than half the population will be in government, or on the government dole.

We are going to find out if a democratic republic can survive reaching such a critical mass.