The comments underneath this article, justifying cutting off “freeloaders” and “moochers”, give me pause.

I think we’re soon to be at the point of secession – internal or external – when the rage against government assistance becomes a conflict over our very values as a nation.

It is now a character flaw to be on public assistance. The able-bodied middle class suburbanite who loudly professes on the Internet to owe no debt (“because I saved money and worked hard!”) is now our ubermenschen over the lives of the lowly, “lazy” “freeloader”.