Why Economically US Is Not Spain or Soviet Union

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(1) Arthur C Brooks, America and the Value of 'Earned Success.' Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2012 (op-ed).
http://www.aei.org/article/socie ... e-of-earned-success
("The opposite of earned success is "learned helplessness," a term coined by Martin Seligman, the eminent psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. It refers to what happens if rewards and punishments are not tied to merit: People simply give up and stop trying to succeed")

Excerpt in the window of print: 'We found that even when good things occurred that weren't earned, like nickles coming out of slot machines, it did not increase people's well-being.'

Note:
(a) My cup of tea. The Phrase Finder, undated.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/my-cup-of-tea.html

* The English noun tea has its origin of spelling in Amoy dialect t'e (for the same Chinese character), where "e" is pronounced the same as "let."
(b) The essay stated, "I taught music during the day and earned a bachelor's degree in economics at night."

* Arthur C Brooks, President
http://www.aei.org/scholar/arthur-c-brooks/
(Until January 1, 2009, he was the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University; Education  PhD, MPhil, policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School, MA, economics, Florida Atlantic University, BA, economics, Thomas Edison State College)
* Thomas Edison State College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison_State_College
(at Trenton, New Jersey)
(c) General Social Survey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Social_Survey
(d) The German or Jewish surname Seligman is variant of Selig. The latter in Middle High German is an adjerctive meaning ‘happy’, ‘fortunate.’

(2) Joseph Berger, Among City's Soviet Immigrants, An Affinity for Republicans; Backing candidates who seem more strongly capitalistic. New York Times, May 9, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/0 ... or-republicans.html

Excerpt in the window of print: 'Too many people want to rely on free money and socialist institutions, and they want businessmen to pay for it.' MR ALTER, who immigrated from Kiev in 1978.