RE: You mean people want free stuff?
Actually most people are INCONSISTENT when it comes to their love/hate relationship with government.
They would be willing to cut government spending on things that don’t affect them personally at all. But when it comes to their pet causes or spending that affects them personally (e.g., aid for children with disabilities, unemployment insurance, social security, etc), they would VOTE for MORE government.
Person A, who might be conservative on most issues would be willing for government to get out of the way of healthcare, but not if he/she has a serious pre-existing condition which will threaten to empty his/her bank account, then you begin to find out that on this one issue, he is as liberal as any other Democrat.
I’m one of those people who could qualify for plenty of assistance, and yet I’d rather go without. Why? Because it’s your money, not mine.
Of course it’s bad when employers are asking me why don’t I go on disability. I just want a job, that’s all.
Very few people today have much character at all.
Not surprising when any talk of virtue has been systematically erased from our culture.