I'm just wondering how many people here who support Liberalism have actually had to live in the world created by big government programs that have destroyed people and made victims out of them. Otherwise good people who have fallen into the cycle of dependency, living on government handouts and been brainwashed into thinking they are owed something simply because they were born. This is how the left gains their power. I've lived it, look at Detroit and you'll see the result.. It isn’t pretty.
And Klavan took the entitlement mentality that he said comes from leftists and focused on the antisocial, destructive behavior of those hooked on entitlements when anybody proposes to scale them back or take them away.
I think conservatives aren't really thinking about how something doesn't come from nothing. Every government program that gives something to somebody has to take it away from somebody else in order to give it. I think leftists maybe aren't so 'awful' that they would literally take food out of my mouth or my rent money in order to receive their entitlement. But they seem unaware that it is you, me, and other wage earners who are providing it for them.
It is like the government magically is a golden goose of unexhaustible benefits. And because they see it as a dutiful government providing it, they don't feel the least bit beholden to those who actually did provide it from their own labor and resources. But when government runs out of other people's money and presumes to cut back on or end an entitlement, there is instant blame and rage and accusations of selfishness and heartlessness.
And generally you see the rage and riots and civil disobedience that Klavan points to in the Occupy groups, in Greece and Spain and anywhere that the government tries to get a handle on runaway entitlements that threaten to bankrupt nations.
