...was published by the Christian Science Monitor and it begins like this:

Creating and sustaining a nation of zombies is expensive.

Large sections of the US population have been turned into zombies. Retirees. Medicare dependents. Food stamp recipients. Disabled people. They are not necessarily bad people. They are not necessarily dishonest or lazy. But rather than add to wealth, they consume it. And when you have too many of them, your society consumes more wealth than it produces and you are on the road to The Downside.

Holy shit. This is just too much. You should read the whole article. I think it would make Ayn Rand blush.

(Via Ron Charles on Twitter.)

UPDATE 11:31 AM: Apparently, this article was too shitty for the Christian Science Monitor to defend. They say they've pulled it: