CarolC:"The earlier (European) immigrants actually did come for the freebies."

Yeah, they stepped off their boats, and immediately headed for the food stamp office!...where they met a social worker who pointed the way to the free clinic, so the women could have their children, so they could be naturalized Native Americans. Soon, they could go to the welfare tee-pee (Ti-pi), where they lied about where they came from, so they could get AFDC. Not long after that, they took their welfare wampum baskets, and exchanged them for a new set of Guild Phosphor Bronze strings, and taught the Indians 'Kumbayah', and dreamt up folk songs to sing of their many trials and tribulations, and equal rights, for homosexual pioneers, and homesteaders. they learded C F G and Em, and wrote protest songs, of how they were so noble, because they evaded the draft, and even convinced each other that they objected to war, when after all they were just afraid, that they'd be missing all the fun after high school. Ever since, they managed to convince others that they had an education, and that they could cut and paste, on their slates, to prove intellectual and scientific studies to justify why they never went on to to undertake a serious study of music, and why they were such 'beautiful' people bringing peace and love, and never having to grow up, so they lived in the past. They totally denied they were spoiled brats, who rebelled at authority, because they felt the were entitled to be cared for like children, all their lives............which brings us up to date, to now...where they can't get health care on their own, unless the government prints more fiat money to pretend they can have anything they want, without producing a thing, to even warrant it. Hey, pass it over here.....
You mean something like that??

P.S. Oh, I know..I just don't understand!