What is it with people who claim the moral high ground because they ostensibly grew up poor? They seem to believe that a tough childhood entitles them to impose their idea of helping the poor on others via government force, and dog forbid anyone whose difficult childhood experiences led them to fight harder, work more, and pull themselves up by their bootstraps speaks out against government entitlement programs (read: forced charity)! Well, they must be ingrates who don’t even understand how government helped them achieve everything they have attained in life!

Remember how the left castigated Ben Carson as a hypocrite, because he believes that generations of welfare entitlements create generations of individuals dependent on government handouts, while he and his family did rely on government assistance to help in times of need? Well, of course, the leftists in their frothing zeal to discredit Carson, decided not to differentiate between generations of entitled welfare recipients milking the government for all they can and those who need a temporary hand up, because had they done so, their narrative of Carson as a hypocrite would have fallen apart. Even left-leaning Snopes slapped them on the nose with a newspaper – albeit lightly – for that.