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Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.