Indeed!! And instead of 'letting them survive...or not', maybe it's time to make them survive....or not.

The difficulty I see is 'that thinking' is never going to be turned around. That mindset is inherent in a certain portion of the population and always has been. In many cultures it's been allowed to die out through natural selection, until the culture finds or learns how to produce more than is needed for day to day survival, but it eventually returns and begins to reassert it's influence. Just as there is a certain portion of the population that wishes to rule, and discover that the dependent will support them as long as they are promised their 'fair share' of the wealth of the culture. Both actually fear independence and individual freedom, deep down in their psyches and hate with passion, those they see producing and thinking for themselves.

We are in a continual battle for our natural individual rights and must recognize that it is a battle that can't be won--only stalemated until the next attack, and there will always come the next attack. Until we realize and fully understand that the jackals and scavengers of the population must be beat back at every opportunity and slightest hint of encroachment, our dreams of individual freedom with all/any of our natural rights will always remain out of our reach.

We must accept that this is much more than an intellectual battle for a way of thinking that we're involved in, that it's a life or death, teeth bared, and bloody war with no end in sight. And it's our neighbors, our friends, and our very own families that are the enemy. It's our genetic luck of the draw that we battle against.

The only answer to fix their thinking, or lack there of, is hunger...without the ease and availability of freebies and hand outs. As long as there's a trough the pigs will feed lazily and without thought or consideration that others are providing for them and making their very existence possible. Like I keep saying... shut off the freebie spigot and let them survive on their own ingenuity... or not. Either you love life or you don't. A is A.

Hence the radio call in show where the woman says "why should I work? you guys are the suckers..."... We need to realize though, that there are 2 forces at work here. One is the stolen money that the government hands out like candy. The other is much harder to identify and even harder than that to stop. That is the lack of self respect and ambition that allows people to live on whatever they can have given to them. While out of work, I have taken my unemployment benefits like anyone might. However, I spent part of every day working on making contacts, sending resumes, etc to find work again. The other part of the day I spent checking on odd jobs, temp work, etc to make money to get by. At no time did I sit back and figure out how to sit and do nothing and continue to live 'on the dole'.

What is the origin of this lack of effort or self respect? I think it is the vast mis characterization of "rights" and what they include. Todays younger generations seem to think they have a "right" to a home, cell phone, car and satellite TV. I would submit that none of these is a "right" and none are included in the definition of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as is so often espoused. Until we turn that thinking around, this problem will persist and will continue to grow.