[Opinionated Blowhard]

This, in a nutshell, is why Obama won. He’s promising to take from the rich and hand it to the middle class. He’s promising to expand disability and food stamps until pretty much anyone who doesn’t want to work can live for free off the backs of the productive. 80 years of the Welfare State have given way too many Americans a mindset of “gimme gimme gimme and make the rich pay for it.” Not just the poor, but a lot of middle class people too. Its why we are in decline. People don’t want to work and produce. They want to live the good life off someone else’s dime.

[Rusty0604]

The redistribution shouldn’t come from the gov’t but from the free market.

[Noamie]

Ask them, “Would you like a more even distribution of wealth even if that meant that your own personal income and/or wealth status remained unchanged?”

They would say, nope.

Envy is a sin, brothers.

[CurlyDave]

This, in a nutshell, is why Obama won. He’s promising to take from the rich and hand it to the middle class. He’s promising to expand disability and food stamps until pretty much anyone who doesn’t want to work can live for free off the backs of the productive. 80 years of the Welfare State have given way too many Americans a mindset of “gimme gimme gimme and make the rich pay for it.” Not just the poor, but a lot of middle class people too. Its why we are in decline. People don’t want to work and produce. They want to live the good life off someone else’s dime.

Oh, how far we have come. Back in the day, no one on disability or food stamps would ever have been considered "middle class".