"Bismarck ( in Germany ) created the first general welfare system in 1889. Why? Out of a sense of charity, philanthropy or civic spirit? No. This brilliant and ambitious politician had found a good way to make the subjects of his empire docile. His reasoning was simple: when the citizens all depend on the state, they won't try to overthrow it or destabilize it, and they will easily give up their fundamental liberties. The State will then become stable and eternal...as long as the system doesn't fail,
WHICH IS WHY YOU HAVE TO MAINTAIN IT AT ALL COSTS." .....Gerard Maudrux