Sustainability and Cost of Economic Dependency

Join Roy Green, one of the nation's most celebrated radio personalities, in a new national series of weekly probing interviews with Calvin Helin. Roy will interview the author on the release of his new book, The Economic Dependency Trap: Breaking Free to Self-Reliance, which is capturing international attention.This weeks segment is titled "Sustainability and Economic Cost of Dependency."

Be sure to tune in to weekly segments that will explore different aspects of the largely misunderstood and devastating pandemic of economic dependency. How and why economic dependency has become a way of life for millions will surprise most people. Helin will discuss his book which explains and investigates the impacts of economic dependency which affect virtually every level of society and every country.

Learn with Roy about economic dependency and how well-meaning government programs have greatly surpassed temporary relief to become a permanent crutch. Discover how society evolved from one that cherished the notion of self-responsibility and self-reliance to one that rewards dependency and dysfunction. Find out the forms that economic dependency takes and how it instills a universal mindset resulting in a psychological profile that is similar whether you are on welfare or a member of the pampered and growing middle class children suffering from "affluenza."

Unfortunately, well-intentioned programs and government welfare cheques instill in their recipients a false sense of entitlement. The results are inferiority complexes, victim thinking, lack of confidence, learned helplessness, inability to cope with adversity, an absence of self-responsibility and accountability, and ultimately an inability to feel the freedom that self-sufficiency can bring. Worse, such attitudes are passed on from generation to generation until too often escape seems impossible.

Author Calvin Helin worked his way up from an impoverished boyhood in a remote First Nations village in northern British Columbia to become a successful lawyer, international businessman and author of growing international acclaim. He has dedicated his life to helping others break the bonds of economic dependency and emerge with newfound confidence and self-worth. He proposes groundbreaking, positive solutions in down-to-earth language that show the road to self-reliance. Economic dependency is not “Aboriginal in Nature”, but independence, adaptability, and resilience are.

Listen to First and Second Interview Broadcast on Saturday, January 29, 2011: Part I, and Part II

The Looming Economic Dependency Trap