Everything I'm hearing sounds like a choice. Married? That's a choice. Kids? Choice. MtG cards? Choice. Fruit stand? Choice.
America is a place where you have more chpices, but also bear the consequenses thereof.
Let me take the opposite: should you be able to live behind a fruit stand in the woods and have your wife taken care of and kid put through college? Who should pay for that?
I don't think it's "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" as "make your chouces and deal with/don't whine about the consequences".
America is a place where you have more chpices, but also bear the consequenses thereof.
Let me take the opposite: should you be able to live behind a fruit stand in the woods and have your wife taken care of and kid put through college? Who should pay for that?
I don't think it's "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" as "make your chouces and deal with/don't whine about the consequences".