You know there are--and always have been--people who through no fault of their own, really are dependent upon other's largesse. Marx & rule by the mob are not the relevant factor in what Jefferson is talking about. The key point in what I posted is that no native Americans in that era were beggars. Walk down the main street in the downtown section in any even moderate sized American city today, and witness what the contemporary Left has wrought on our society.
The cult of egalitarian fantasy & faux grievances was not acceptable in Jefferson's Virginia. (But they did not let those who really were incapacitated starve.) It is the difference between charity & corruption of the susceptible--very, very different approaches.
