And interestingly their unemployment rate is lower than ours* (at least since 2004). Evidence that providing more government services doesn't lead to people just sitting on their asses and cashing their welfare checks.
I don't think anybody's seriously arguing that a majority of people would just sit around, but more government funding or regulation services would throw incentives out of whack.
* http://globaleconstats.com/wp/2009/08/25/the-unemployment-ra...