[MD] head, heart and hands

[Platt Holden]

Hey Andre,

> Platt:
>>  When I was 8 my grandfather often said, "If you don't work, you don't
> eat." Today if you don't work you're rewarded with a handout from the
> socialist government. What the socialists never ask is what happens when 
> the
> workers wise up and discover it pays to be a freeloader. Tea party anyone?
>
> Andre:
> Hey Platt, I wonder which socialist government can afford this as a hand
> out? Is there a true blue socialist government in existence here on earth?
>
> In China they certainly do not have it...you are thrown back onto your
> family or village if you happen to lose your capacity to work (temporarily
> or permanently).
>
> In most Western countries you are entitled to UB (unemployment benefit) if
> you have accrued them through enough years of (continuous)  employment 
> plus,
> contributed part of your pay into a UB insurance fund. Otherwise, as you
> say, you do not work you do not eat. And if you do not eat you do not shit
> and if you don't shit you die!
>
> No tea parties I am afraid. You usually find these in the circles of the
> ,still continuing,big business bonus cultures.
>
> Which socialist government do you have in mind?
>
> Andre

I had our welfare state in mind. What happens to the able bodied nonworkers 
in the Netherlands?

Platt