Sentence examples for handout mentality from inspiring English sources
Yet, the handout mentality too often earns front-page coverage on web and print media.
He said he once overheard Mr. Stern say "in substance that former Mayor Dinkins had ruined the city by giving too many blacks handouts, and that there was a mentality among minorities that they deserved handouts".
In 2001 Singapore's then prime minister argued that handouts would result in a "crutch mentality, which will lead to indolence, dependence and abuse".To ward off social ills, the region has tended to rely instead on youthful populations, bountiful growth and dutiful families.
So often many families get caught up in victim mentality of always looking for the next handout... and then they expect the handout... and then they depend on the handout.
A lot of people have internalized that mentality, even today, of expecting handouts.
It leads in the creation of jobs paying social-security contributions, says Hanns-Ludwig Brauser of metropoleruhr, a development agency.Last year's decision to phase out coal subsidies by 2018 meant "breaking free" from a mentality shaped by heavy industry and handouts, says one local economist.
"The vast sum of stimulus money flowing into health information technology created a 'race to adopt' mentality — buy the systems today to get government handouts, but figure out how to make them work tomorrow," Dr. Brailer said.
Photograph: AP Photo/FBI handout.
