My main problem isn't that this is some huge revelation.
I pretty much assumed 50-75% of the people "in the system" are milking it, and at worst merely suffer from multi-generation shitbird-itis. I only feel (partly) sorry for the portion of them who are there because of the .gov regulatory and tax environment that penalizes capitalist enterprise to the point that opportunity begins to wane.
My problem is that all my solutions to the situation that would have any chance of working are um... let's say... very un-Libertarian in nature, both in getting the political control to enact them, and in terms of mitigating the damage to the functional/productive portion of America and critical infrastructure, (and perhaps international interference too) once said policies are emplaced.
I think everyone knows the dependent class now outnumber us as a voting block, and with 90% of the MSM favoring Leftist populism, (and not dying fast enough in the face of new media/internet) the odds of getting any kind of economically rational control over the federal government, much less actual fiscal conservative control, for the generation or two a more gradual rolling back of welfare/entitlements/dole money would take are between zero and none.
And of course, you'll never get a true Representational Republic back, much less a suitably Libertarian Representational Republic out of such a authoritarian enterprise. Just like a true communist state has never arisen from the "dictatorship of the proletariat" either.
