On Wed 30 Jul 2003 09:42:24a, Pat Winstanley <wallopcods2003@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote in news:MPG.1991db9a6f9f0b1398a603@News.CIS.DFN.DE: 

> In article <3308a36e877f695e0e6ec2d486457380@free.teranews.com>, 
> omphalos@wp.pl says...
>
>> Subject: Re: Americans aren't so lazy after all
>> From: Omphalos <omphalos@wp.pl>
>> Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan, soc.culture.canada, soc.culture.europe,
>> alt.space.monkey.invaders, alt.abortion, alt.nuke.europe,
>> alt.spacebastards, az.general, alt.nuke.the.usa 
>> 
>> On Wed 30 Jul 2003 04:31:47a, Pat Winstanley
>> <wallopcods2003@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
>> news:MPG.199192d1d877a0698a5f7@News.CIS.DFN.DE: 
>> 
>>> In article <bg7fl7$kt3g0$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>, 
>>> kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com says...
>>>
>>>>> Unearned income, dear, unearned! ;-))
>>>> 
>>>> How is it unearned?
>>> 
>>> You didn't earn it... other people did the work that earned
>>> (produced) the money. Or you might say your capital earned it by
>>> working for you. 
>>> 
>>> You did not earn it because you did no work at all to get it.
>> 
>> It's not a government handout.
> 
> Nor is any money that has been collected and redistributed from 
> taxpayers for that matter, sinnce the government did not earn (produce) 
> that money. The taxpayers did.

If the government gives money away, then it is a government handout. The 
government forcing people to give their money to the government 'charity' 
has nothing to do with people investing in the stock market.