Summary: Kevin McCullough writes about how liberals in America have turned away from personal responsibility and instead wait for the giant collective to take care of them. McCullough argues that this shift being implemented by liberals (with President Obama at the forefront) is a fundamental change from the decades of tradition of personal responsibility in this country. He cites the Founder's efforts to ensure individual rights an evidence that our nation was designed to be one where an individual succeeded or failed based on his actions alone, not the state's. Liberals, he says, do not understand that when the collective cares for the individual instead of the individual caring for himself, it is really a small powerful few that hold the powerful (not the collective).
Opinion: While much of McCullough's editorial seemed to be personal digs at President Obama (which I did not think were appropriate), I do think that his general argument is well-founded. Too many people in this country have forgotten that it is their responsibility to provide for themselves and their family. When the state begins to meddle in social and economic affairs too much, a small few (not the collective) will gain power over those aspects of life, which leads to laziness: people will stop working hard because they feel that they are entitled to a good life and job. The whole idea behind the American dream is that those who work hard and are responsible are rewarded with success, while those who are irresponsible and lazy pay the price for their failure. The nanny state that many liberals in this country want simply rewards laziness.
Source: http://townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2010/03/07/why_the_left_despises_personal_responsibility?page=2
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