Then over @ The New York Times Magazine, I read crap like this:

…The only problem was money. Having separated from my wife of 21 years, who had physical custody of our sons, I was handing over $4,000 a month in alimony and child-support payments. That left me with take-home pay of $2,777, barely enough to make ends meet in a one-bedroom rental apartment. Patty had yet to even look for a job. At any other time in history, the idea of someone like me borrowing more than $400,000 would have seemed insane.

But this was unlike any other time in history. My real estate agent gave me the number of Bob Andrews, a loan officer at American Home Mortgage Corporation.

The idea that my tax dollars could potentially go to subsidize these people is infuriating, but what’s even worse is that these people apparently believe they are owed that help in some way.

They apparently all believe tax payers should pay them to help get them to work at a job they choose or that tax payers should help pay mortgage for a house they freely bought or believe they should be allowed to control the rent on private property in a city they choose to live in…

Regardless of what they think their intent is, the fact is, by their very actions, they display a philosophy of self obsession without moral reasoning.  They seem to believe strongly that the money we use to buy food for our families, to pay our rent, to pay for our transportation – should be reduced to help them fix situations they freely entered into.

If you want to know why and how we got here – I say look no further than this obvious a lack of morals and to their obvious obliviousness to it.

Now while it is true that this lack of morals isn’t some monopoly held by only these people, but alas it is shared by business leaders, union leaders, politicians and many others.  But they all deserve our scorn, contempt, and an education they pay for, not tax payer money to support their bad decisions.

It’s as if they all need to be sat down and told, “Money doesn’t grow on trees” like a three year old who can’t understand that money is limited.  It’s staggering.

As John Galt stated in Any Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged:

I think I now understand why some people can become so cynical.  I’m still going to believe in the overall goodness of most people, but slowly but surely I find the percentage of good people I think exists is much smaller than I’m willing to admit.