[TheRealThing]

If 52% is accurate, it would be correct to say "a slight majority of American households." It would be self-serving, sensationalistic, and inaccurate to say, "most." But, "more takers than providers" is a problem, no doubt. However, it is not so simple a problem as "too sorry to work." American jobs booked it to Mexico and China and India and Thailand, leaving behind a wasteland of subsistence living jobs. When maximizing profits becomes the Mammon Ethic that is the be all end all of the corporate elite, and the world leaders who get in bed with them, a shrinking middle class happens, a "selling guns to where business interest runs" happens. Yes, "too sorry to work" is an issue, but, geez, open your eyes, man.

Mine was not to open up a new debate front regarding US industry, which BTW went to Mexico and Thailand because they were regulated to death by the EPA. Government cannot regulate utopia in spite of John Lennon's recording successes. Nor should they be trying to regulate morality. You said (to me) that there are a tiny fraction of people who won't work. The ratio of takers is certainly not miniscule by comparison to those who work. And I disagree, it really is just that simple.

If the people had to suffer the realities of having voted for those who are listing at a fatal degree toward socialism, they would snap out of it. But no, the goodies still come, the ax is still ground, and the US ship of state still sails in an ever tightening circle.