Working, and getting something for it, have absolutely nothing to do with each other. If it did, the richest people in America would be migrant farm workers.

Lookit me. I ain't legitimately retired. I'm retired because I was born in 1947, not 1954, because I spent the war on an air conditioned ship, eating three square feeds a day, taking a shower every morning, and sleeping on a clean fartsack every night. And I quickly learned how to milk that for all it was worth.

I'm in fat city because I went to a state supported university, worked on Federally funded defense projects on interesting, exciting jobs I was qualified for, and spent 20 years in County Government and got a State Pension for it.

I'm a liberal because I know exactly how lucky I was. But if I thought I really deserved all that just because I worked hard and was smart, but still didn't get everything that was coming to me because some lazy poor dude got my share instead, then I'd be a conservative.

That's why liberals always feel guilty about what they have achieved, and conservatives are always bitter and envious about what they haven't.