I am all for people managing their own lives. It would be nice if people would actually do it. For if they did the government would have no need to do so.
That's the difference between you and me. You cling to the belief that it is necessary for the government to, at some point, manage our lives if we are not doing what they have decided is correct.
The fly in this ointment is where do they draw the line? It seems to be a moving line and they are taking more of our freedoms away each time they advance it.
Picture your rights as a block of cheese in the fridge and each day they come in and slice off a piece of it. If you don't think that this is actually happening you've been spending too much time watching reruns of "Pewee's Playhouse".
You have it precisely backwards.
It is because the government has so many safety nets out there that people figure that they don't have to take care of themselves.
Besides, the government has no such mandate. Doing so is a usurpation of power and money that is not their's.