Here’s the game: I supply a quo­ta­tion, you pick the story from today’s New York Times that it came from.

Here’s the quote:

This is crazi­ness. We’re at risk of cre­at­ing an entire class of people, as subset of people, just com­fort­able get­ting by living off the government.

Here are your choices:

a/ “What’s a Banker Really Worth,” Steven Brill’s cover story for the NYT Mag­a­zine, which dis­cusses Ken­neth Feinberg’s pro­posal to impose a $500,000 annual cash cap on the com­pen­sa­tion of exec­u­tives at the seven com­pa­nies that received “exceptional assistance” from the government’s $700B TARP program.

b/ “Living on Noth­ing But Food Stamps,” Jason DeParle and Robert M. Gebeloff’s A1 story about the six mil­lion Amer­i­cans whose only income is food stamps, which pro­vide about $200 per person per month.

What, you need a hint? You don’t need a hint. But there’s one anyway after the jump.

The quo­ta­tion is from John Linder, a Geor­gia Repub­li­can con­gress­man who is the rank­ing Repub­li­can on the House’s wel­fare policy panel.