[DiogenesLamp]

If it's assumed by the fed, and therefore effectively by all of us, they won't see that they're any worse off than responsible people who live in free states. In fact, the clever ones would realize they got the "bennies"to themselves but we all split the tab, so they actually fared better for having selected communism.

Exactly right. They need to feel the painful results of their own irresponsibility in order to correct their foolish thinking. It is the only way they can learn better.

[Still Thinking]

Exactly right. They need to feel the painful results of their own irresponsibility in order to correct their foolish thinking. It is the only way they can learn better.

Correct. And I have no intention of paying to clean up the failure of a system I don't believe in and could have selected but chose not to. That's collectivism (redistributing the failure of, well, other collectivism) and it's wrong, both morally and as a practical matter.