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You are victims. You are helpless against the wiles of big corporations and insurance companies, and you need protection. You need the government to take over and do things you cannot do for yourself.
That is the thinking of what David Brooks calls "the educated class" that favors the Democrats' health care bills. Members of this elite spout tales of woe of people denied coverage or care with the implication that there but for the grace of government go you. So sign on, and the government will take care of everything.
It's an argument that has often been...
Obama's Nanny Care Insults the American Spirit
I think young Americans have lost that connection. Maybe because parents tried more to be friends than parents, giving their children whatever their hearts desired, that now we have adults with their hands out, looking for their entitlements.
It used to be when we were teens, we wanted to move out, work hard and make it on our own. We actually felt ashamed if we needed help to get by. Now, too many of the current generation does not...