I don't know about anyone else, but for me I want things to be better in my life, one day I would love to have a wife and children, but until then I have to doing anything and everything I can to be better than I was the day before.  I don't want to be some poor person dependent on the government to give me things, I will work 12 and 13 hour days so I have the money I need to buy a car(did that less than 2 weeks ago), I want to own my own home(I'll be looking at one this weekend), I want to be employed so that I can afford those things and more, so I make myself valuable to my boss, and in turn they like having me around so I in turn make it very hard for them to put anything negative in my evaluations.  Being independent of any other for want's and needs is the hallmark of being a proud American.  The complete opposite of what The One, Barack Obama and the Democratic party stand for.