The root of the problem Sal discusses is a point of view, universally agreed to by the Left, that people should end up with the results and circumstances bestowed upon them by an ever-concerned and beneficial state, and not as a result of their own efforts. This is actually quite amusing in that these same people believe themselves to be better and brighter than the rest of us. We saw this as a self-proclaimed badge of honor during the Kennedy administration, but as a nation we have been stuck with that brag ever since.
The root of the problem Sal discusses is a point of view, universally agreed to by the Left, that people should end up with the results and circumstances bestowed upon them by an ever-concerned and beneficial state, and not as a result of their own efforts. This is actually quite amusing in that these same people believe themselves to be better and brighter than the rest of us. We saw this as a self-proclaimed badge of honor during the Kennedy administration, but as a nation we have been stuck with that brag ever since.