"government dependency" (Rmoney) and the G.I. BILL

From a USA Today editorial reply by Rmoney:
"Efforts that promote hard work and personal responsibility over government dependency make America strong."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-09-18/Romney-47-recovery-dependency/57804214/1

From wiki:
"The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (P.L. 78-346, 58 Stat. 284m), known informally as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). Benefits included low-cost mortgages, loans to start a business or farm, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend college, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation.

It was available to every veteran who had been on active duty during the war years for at least ninety days and had not been dishonorably discharged. Combat was not required.[1] By the end of the program in 1956, roughly 2.2 million veterans had used the GI Bill education benefits in order to attend colleges or universities. An additional 6.6 million used these benefits for some kind of training program.[2]

Since the original 1944 law, the term has come to include other veteran benefit programs created to assist veterans of subsequent wars as well as peacetime service. Historians and economists consider the GI Bill a major political success—especially in contrast to the treatments of World War I veterans—and a major contribution to America's stock of human capital that sped long-term economic growth."

So, these folks suffered from "government dependency" for a few years.
And that "government dependency" gave them a leg up, a way to succeed and move forward. And they gave us THE most amazing growth in the economy in our history.
All (or mainly) because of these 'victims' of "government dependency".

If that's what government dependency means, I'll take a lot more of it.