Today on "Hannity", a young college student asserted that, "with the free market, you don't have a safety net".

Nobody, not even Hannity, challenged that assertion. Nobody questioned: why should there be a safety net? And its corollary: why require others to provide a safety net because YOU want there to be one?

In the 1975 movie, "Rollerball", Jonathan E's ex-wife, with whom he's still in love, is sent to convince him to give up playing Rollerball.
As they discuss the matter in the woods, the following conversation takes place:
Jonathan: It's like people, uh... we had a choice a long time ago, between... oh havin' all them nice things and freedom. Of course, they, uh... chose comfort."

Ella: "But, comfort IS freedom! It always has been! The whole history of civilization has been the struggle against poverty and need."
Jonathan (interrupting): "No, no! That... that's not it; that's NEVER been it. I mean, them privileges just buy us off."

We are surrendering essential liberties for convenience, for comfort, for safety.
But, if you analyze it, the freer you are, the more dangerous life is for you. The man alone in the wilderness is the most free, and lives the most dangerous life.

And if these people want to surrender responsibility for their lives in exchange for safety and comfort, let them. That's not my problem.

My problem is, they want to surrender MY liberty for safety and comfort. I'm the bad guy because I don't want to be sold into slavery for their piece of mind.