I think that may be a part of it. If you lose money, bad behaviour is overlooked.

I didn't expect to get far.

We blame Obama, but Obama did not in any way do this. American voters did this. The lazy, uninformed voters with the "gimme" attitude. Which, if the election is any measure of the problem, these people outnumber the workers. Stop blaming the most visible symptom and look at the disease. Jobless are not martyrs. They are the minority and the country is filled with greedy, selfish, "gimme" voters. That's what happens in a democracy that was not tended to properly. It was too much work to stop this when it started so politicians just brought home as much money to their states as they could and called themselves "good". Logical outcome. Bad outcome, but denial and complacency tend to have bad outcomes.

I read yesterday that 95% of new medicines come from the US because we do not have price controls. Drugs are cheap in Canada because they are expensive here. Price controls require drugs be cheaper in Canada and someone has to make up the difference. Maybe we don't need new drugs, but if we do and price controls become a reality in the US, I have no idea where we will get them from.

Perhaps we could try for term limits by voting the idiots out? Having to limit terms occurs when the democratic ideals have derailed. Like after FDR. No more four term handouts. But we did that one with a constitutional amendment which is not likely today.

So now we have to pay to save the ocean from evolution, survival of the fittest? If the shrimp die out due to infectious disease, isn't that just Darwinian principals in action?

You buy a PhD online.

I continually recommend that welfare checks should be written and hand-delivered to recipients by the workers that pay for the welfare. Welfare should be personal. If you get $400 a week, your neighbors should be required to show up each week with a check they wrote. It would be mandatory, with no middleman.

Add to that, in spite of the fact women have been foolish enough to believe abortion gives them power, the men still get away scott free. The woman pays for the abortion, or the government (and therefore, women, since more women than men having jobs is the way the Obama administration is sending the economy), takes the health risks and misses work if the procedure doesn't go as planned, while the men trot off to the next vagina. Women can be really stupid.

I most certainly do care about the law. I also don't believe that just because Obama breaks the law, everyone else can too. This is all "But Mommy, everyone else is doing it so why can't I?" and sadly people think this is okay. If you don't believe in following the law, that's fine. Just don't complain about consequences.

Reliable evidence, please. Where do you get your statistics from?