The country will be a sinking ship as long as anyone think America "owes" them a house...or a job...or anything for that matter.
My fist house I had to buy on land contract...35,000 bucks...did not have a down payment. I paid it off, and fixed it up at the same time. Could not spend money back then, it all went to someday owning that house and fixing it all up, while I lived in it. Got er done....sold that house for 100,000....it was worth a lot more after I gutted it out and re did everything, inside and out..(WHILE I LIVED IN IT)
Next house...I had my down payment...that one cost me 150,000....I put the 100,000 down I got off the first house.
I'm now on my forth house and it's almost payed for, did all this myself, could not eat out a lot, could not buy every gun I dream about, and I paid FED taxes the whole time...(I have no idea what the post above is talking about...I made 40,000 per year way back then and paid fed taxes like crazy)....
Now the kids are all gone....I went from making around 75 to 80 per year, back to 55K...(my choice)...
and I'm paying gobs of federal taxes......and State taxes....and a bunch of other taxes.
As long as people here in the U.S. think our country "owes" them something...we are going to go down, we will be a sinking ship. I notice Asians come here with nothing, works twice as hard as most people, and in a few years have their citizenship and a nice business....must be they don't have that attitude of America owing them lots of stuff. Also...I notice they raise their kids pretty strict so I guess their kids will grow up the same way they do. Lot's of American's kids are fat and lazy...go figure...their citizenship don't mean squat I guess.
And here is a good catch 22 for you all....the "spreading of wealth" also would hurt Obama real bad...if he followed it....I see he made millions of dollars to put him in the presidents chair....if he would have shared all that wealth...he would not have been able to achieve HIS dream....which seems to be PRESIDENT of the U.S. Which is why he did not share that great amount of wealth with anyone else. He needed it to "buy" the office.
My opinion...they vary....but not by much!