We have trained entire generations now to believe in the moral virtue of looting your fellow citizens. What's more important, we have trained them to be incapable of realizing they are looting their fellow citizens.

Good people who would be mortally shocked and embarrassed at the notion of going door-to-door in their neighborhood to ask for money for their prescriptions are at the same time indignant at the idea that such a gift should not be immediately forthcoming from the government. The obvious mental connection never occurs, and the politicians like it that way.

The Free Lunch is god now, and the Democratic Party is its prophet. No one will ever win an election today by telling the voters they can't have everything they want whenever they want it. Heck, look at the goodies the Republican congress and administration have tossed out already this year, and they're supposed to be the opposition.