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If being fair is your intention, perhaps "Americans" ought to be replaced with "people." There's a lot of things you can lay on the USA's doorstep, but a monopoly on irresponsibility or entitlement is not one of them.

> "If somebody cannot afford to have [X], then they don’t have [X]."

suppose X = {health care, an education, a lawyer, ...}

sometimes the value of X makes a bit of difference.

Now I need to go take a shower and read some Paul Krugman columns...

Wouldn't you just need to take another shower after reading Krugman?

How dare you agree with the Heritage Foundation and its crazy libertarian views.