Too many Americans also think they're owed a job making the sort of salary they think they're entitled to. In my experience, most of these same people vote Democrat, and support the nanny state in all its various permutations.
I've been hurt by negative economic forces too, but in my case, it was the influx of illegal aliens into the construction trades that practically destroyed my family's business. They drove the prices for what we do down to near subsistence levels, and turned what was once an honorable, highly skilled trade into a fly-by-night, semi-skilled, cut throat game.
Unlike my dunderhead liberal brother, I never supported the policies which brought those conditions about.
I don’t think these people thought they were owed anything; they worked hard at their jobs and basically priced themselves out of them. Why would a company hire an older person with a family and a mortgage when they could just hire someone for a lot less? They can demand longer hours, without any of the distractions a worker with a family would deal with; in the past young workers would grow up to have families of their own, but those days are gone: few young people are committing to marriage, never mind children. They are the “new normal”.