[TheRealThing]

There is no economy that has all winners. In every economy a certain % of "able bodied" find reason not to work. In every program, the dishonest and ingenuous lazy will find ways to gain something for nothing. In no society can those able but unwilling to contribute continue to leech resources they do nothing to create. However, it is the working poor, and the working lower middle that did not experience the Reagan 80's as you say. I am not bashing Ronald Reagan. He was a needed anodyne to the Carter years. Of course it depends on amendments and how things shake out, but I am dubious about Ryan's healthcare bill, in that it seems like the same old GOP: stroke the least vulnerable, strike the most.

Of course there is no economy that has all winners. But that doesn't keep people like you from acting like people who're poor, are all victims of greedy corporations and such. What are you even talking about when you say corporate responsibility anyway? Hasn't the widespread existence of unions largely done away with substandard wages and benefits? Wages and benefits that ObamaCare has devastated for the foreseeable future I might add. I mean owing to ObamaCare, each taxpayer has been saddled with paying an average of 14 thousand dollars annually for somebody else's health care needs. The Dem's mantra; 'We care, you pay.'

Anodyne? People on the left and the right hated Reagan exactly the way they do Trump. And you couldn't be more wrong about the fortunes of the working middle class during and immediately following the Reagan years. But did it ever occur to you that the reason many people are poor is because they just don't have the drive or the desire to get out there and compete? No of course not, it's those darn rich guys who are just too selfish to give them their money, right? The welfare tipping point was reached several years ago.

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[SIZE="2"]"In 2013, according to the Census Bureau, there were 105,862,000 full-time year-round workers in the United States -- including 16,685,000 full-time government workers. These full-time workers were outnumbered by the 109,631,000 whom the Census Bureau says were getting benefits from means-tested federal programs -- e.g. welfare -- as of the fourth quarter of 2012.

"Every American family that pays its own way -- and takes care of its own children whether with one or two incomes -- must subsidize the 109,631,000 on welfare."[/SIZE]
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/sta...-time-wor/

So now you tell me, given the fact that in 1964 only 350,000 people were on food stamps and that today we have nearly 50 million on food stamps, how much compassion and generosity is enough? The 'Great Society" initiative turned millions of US citizens into welchers.