In other words, a lot of folks felt that they were entitled to a living and that they didn't have to learn anything new.
After losing a six-figure job a year ago, and after determining that I had gotten soul-deep sick of the whole corporate run-around, I started my own business. It's making us a modest living, no small thing here in the wilds of Northern Idaho. It can be done - it just takes a little creativity, ambition and most of all, a self-reliant spirit. Which, of course, flies in the face of the liberal politics of victimism.