In their minds, those people that rely on (name a government program) are in that position ONLY because of a lack of desire to work hard or be responsible for themselves. And why should hard working middle class Americans that “do it the right way” have to pay for everyone else to fuck off and be irresponsible or lazy? Doesn’t that make it worse? If you’re going to subsidize people’s laziness and irresponsibility, you’re just going to encourage them to mooch off of hard working middle class Americans.
Hatch’s comments mirror pretty much everyone I work with. They’re smart people, they’re otherwise compassionate people, but they have an enormous blind spot when it comes to this. They have this naive belief that everyone starts out at the same level, and since they’re doing okay in life it’s because they worked hard and lived life right (those old Protestant roots). So if they could do it, everyone else could do, if they were just more responsible. Why should they have to pay to support people who refuse to work hard and be successful?
That gif with the rich guy distracting the man in the middle while he takes all the cookies for himself? It’s exactly that playing out right now.
Just so folks know, that statement by Hatch was apparently taken out of context, and he wasn’t actually talking about children’s healthcare. He was talking about other stuff.
