A Nation of Moochers (35 page)

Figg, Derek

The Fighter
(movie)

Finley, Nolan

Food Share program

food stamps

for college students

dependency fostered by

eligibility for

for hipsters

spending on

stigma associated with

user statistics for

Forbes

on incentives to work

“moocher ratio” by

on pensions

401(k)s

Fox News

Frank, Barney

Freddie Mac

bailout of

real estate bubble and

Freedom of Information Act

From Opportunity to Entitlement
(Davies)

GAO.
See
Government Accountability Office

GDP.
See
Gross Domestic Product

Geithner, Timothy

General Accounting Office, U.S.

General Electric

General Motors (GM)

bailout of

lobby, political, by

GI Bill

Gila River Farms, Arizona

Ginsberg, Mitchell

GM.
See
General Motors

Goldman Sachs

bailout of

lobby, political, by

Goodman, Paul

Gottlieb, Scott

government.
See also
bailout of 2008-09; subsidy/entitlement programs, government

bailout of corporations by

budgets by

employees of

income, personal, supplied by

lobbying of

national debt by

real estate bubble fanned by

spending statistics for

unions for workers in

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Great Britain, subsidies in

Great Depression, U.S.

Greece, public employees in

Greenhut, Steven

green initiatives

Green River Community College, Washington

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Grothman, Glenn

Guiso, Luigi

Hagan, Joe

HAMP.
See
Home Affordable Modification Program

Harris, Jack

Harvard University

Joint Center for Housing Studies at

Hayek, Friedrich

Health and Human Services

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
See also
health care reform bills

health care reform bills

age of dependency under

incentives, work, and

insurance premiums under

Medicaid’s impact by

health service subsidies.
See also specific subsidies

health care reform’s impact on

Medicaid

Medicare

qualification for

spending on

user statistics for

Hennessey, Keith

Hensarling, Jeb

The Heritage Foundation

on dependency culture

on food stamp use

on personal income

on real estate bubble

Herricks, Mary

Hevesi, Alan G.

high-speed rail plan

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, flooding in

“Hipsters on Food Stamps”
(
Salon.com
)

Hitler, Adolf

Hodge, Scott

Holiday Inn JFK, New York

home(s)

credits

disaster relief for

insurance

ownership statistics for

subsidies/assistance programs for

Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP)

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)