Safety Net

"We shouldn't be living in a safety net."  Imagine a safety net.  You see someone fall in it, and if they're still alive, they get out and back to their business.

Unemployment insurance shouldn't be another welfare state, and welfare should be a temporary condition until a person is making their own way in the world.  Becoming accustomed to a lifestyle should NOT be an excuse for allowing someone to suckle in comfort on the teat of public funds.  If you want charity, go get it from charitable friends.  No friends?  Your choice.  Mentally ill?  OK, now there's something society should be doing.  Malingering?  Out with you.  You can go linger on the streets.  Life needs to be hard for a human to feel like like she's really living.  Yes, moments of comfort and luxury are fine.  But too long in that state, and one becomes weak and soft.  That's not good except for babies.  Overly wealthy?  Shame on you.  You think you really work that much harder than the hoi polloi?  You don't.  You work harder than some and others work harder than you.  Reasonable wealth, enough to live comfortably on for the rest of your life is enough.  Reinvesting your money in real socially beneficial endeavors is great, but growing gratuitous is unhealthy for you, for your descendents, and for the nation.  Stop it -- you're now part of the problem, sucking America dry by the a phenomenon of modern civilization which allows your goods to reach everybody in the country and so fill your vaults.  You didn't build that, my little friend, and for your wealth to become grotesque is tantamount to royalty of old, luxuriating while your subjects toil for pennies.  And the revolution is just and you caused it by your hubris.  I'm not for the forced redistrubution of wealth (even though some might argue that's preferable to the eventual downfall of civilization), but I am for the natural consequences which is the ultimate destruction of the system that allowed it in the first place.  If the wealthy are so shortsighted that they believe their money and resources are better served in their third home, second yacht, fifth car than in the pockets of the hardworking middle and lower classes (raising all boats), then they deserve the fall of the very buttresses that allow them their selfishness.