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The rise of the entitlement society was a direct result of the good will and charity of the American people and a desire to give people a helping hand.

The end result has been the exact opposite of what was intended. Welfare has kept people locked into dependency on government and a basic subsistence poverty lifestyle.

This is combined with an amazingly arrogant and in your face attitude of entitlement.

No one seriously believes welfare is a helping hand and support for welfare is dying fast.

Unfortunately, the levels of government dependent people are growing so rapidly that they are becoming a majority voting block that politicians are trying to exploit.

Right now the system chugs on using borrowed money but the entitlement system as it stands is not sustainable for more than a few few years into the future.

In really, the system is already dead, but it continues as long as we can borrow 50 cents of every dollar the government spends, but the deficit is just to large to paper over the fact that there are too many people riding the system and too few paying into it so it is going broke.

At some point the entitlement system is going to collapse when there is no more money to pay the system.

More taxes are not going to help because working americans already pay between 40-60% of their income to taxes so it will be difficult to squeeze twice as much tax revenues to cover our 50% Federal Budget deficit.

The lack of money to fund the system is going to leave millions of people who have no education, no job skills and most important, no desire to work combined with an an amazingly in your face attitude that society owes them a free ride without the means to support themselves.

On the other hand , we will have the people who are working hard and paying for the system having no sympathy for people who make more on welfare by not working than the workers who are paying the bills make for their hard work.

Not going to be a good situation.