Incidentally, apechild, I'm not saying you're wrong that there are some people who think the government owes them a living. I just think that they're by far the minority. The frustration with the current administration seems to stem from the fact that they're paying a lot of lip service to helping the working class, while doing everything they can to hand out tax cuts to those who need them least, trying to gut government regulation of industry, and running up a deficit that's going to entirely preclude any government-funded safety net services in the future. Whether these measures will actually help the working class is, unfortunately, an empirical question being carried out in the laboratory of most people's everyday lives. Maybe they're right, I don't know. But I think we're dealing with the immanent death of the middle class as we've known it, and a lot of people are blaming the victim for not having enough initiative to overcome the growing hurdles to self-sufficiency that the government, from top to bottom, doesn't currently seem interested in knocking down.
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