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Agree. One thing's for sure, there really is no place to draw the line now that the demand for entitlements has the nation in it's grip. Rich people will only give so much to the cause so, it looks to me like the middle class will once again be saddled with the tab.

There is a problem though, they bit off more than they could chew with this ObamaCare debacle. Funding for ObamaCare will literally obliterate the savings for most of those who have managed to have any savings, and will prevent the rest from ever being able to start. Skyrocketing costs in the form of energy, and medical care will consume anything left over after the rising cost of food and other bills are paid. Once savings are gone and credit unions have loaned their last, houses will go into foreclosure and America, the wonder of the world, will see the last of her wealth siphoned off into handout oblivion.

Keith Ellison and Jay Z are examples of people who were born into the society envisioned by Lyndon Baines Johnson. They speak with great passion when they say government programs are the right of the people. The irony here is that our society was indeed great at the time LBJ actually started the entitlement culture. Some entitlements are probably necessary. Social Security, the food stamp safety net, limited medicare, ER level care for those who can't pay, all are feasible programs. The conception of the "Great Society" was the start of our national slide into decline. In fact, shortly after the inception of the more liberally humane ideas of 'guiltless welfare' came to pass, cradle to grave entitlements became full blown. And, in so doing, we thusly ensured folks a life of ease, and it was then only a question of time as to when the demand for entitlements would outstrip our nation's ability to provide them.

Though I disagree totally with handing the millions of those who are too lazy to work, every possible convenience, it really isn't just a matter of morality. It is a matter of economics. At some point the confluence of the ramifications of the immoral practice of living on the substance of others and the reality of the limitations of how much money working people may be forced to give to the cause, reach their limits. At that point working folks and non-working will literally have exchanged places, making the non-working folks much better off than their working counterparts. Those making a hundred thousand dollars a year could soon be living on about 35 thousand of that and the rest will go to the takers. Add to that, the democrats' willingness to exploit the situation, using the vast throngs of the listless as endlessly expanding vote farms, and you get the eventual downfall of our culture via our own federal government. The paradox in all this is voters still hold the power to straighten this mess out by voting with integrity.

You know better. They will vote to continue getting free sh!t forever. And Obama and the Dems are working 24/7 to get more free sh!t people into the country and of course voting Dem in order to hold on to their power. The country will eventually fail when there aren't enough working people to pay for all the free sh!t. Then the liberal media will blame it all on Republicans.