Culture of Dependency

When America was a pre-national colonial enterprise, experiments in socialism were attempted but were abandoned when the early colonists saw they had no prospect of success, disincentivized hard work, and were in fact, destructive of society. "Those who do not work, do not eat" became the edict on which our prosperity has been built (earned). I am certain that Henrietta Hughes has a sob story as to why she is in the lamentable condition she finds herself and her family and that she described to our President and some charity might well deliver her from her desperate straits, but why should the responsible suffer for obviously poor decisions? Why should those who have never missed a payment in their lives, who have lived within their means (or well-below their means to accumulate some wealth), be forced at the point of government guns-that is after all what the Federal income tax boils down to-to empty their accounts to subsidize the irresponsible? Obama is the first President who wants to equalize outcomes. The only way he can do this is to sap the productive. This is called Marxism.