Again, your persistence in seeing life in such starkly good-guy bad-guy terms prevents us from having any real discussion. I *don't* think government owes me everything from cradle to grave. (Almost no one thinks that.) Your straw-man parodies of everyone from liberals to slackers to Canadians makes you a pretty poor opponent--you'd be disqualified from a high school debate. Anyway, I hope your life continues to offer you enough good fortune so that you can think it's because you've done everything right and paid your own way. I guess the rest of us will keep doing the best we can in the beautiful, complicated lives we've got.