I'm tired of rants from people with no compassion

A couple days ago I received a rant written by Robert A. Hall, one of those things endlessly forwarded. I checked it on snopes.com, which says it was indeed written in February 2009 by Robert A. Hall, a former Massachusetts state senator. The email confuses him with Robert David Hall, a TV actor. The snopes website does not comment on the veracity of the claims Hall makes.

On to the rant itself. The opening paragraph is:

"I'm tired of being told that I have to 'spread the wealth' to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it."

I doubt many of the 8 million people currently out of work want to be. They aren't lazy, they're just out of work -- and desperately searching for it. As for the rest, who on welfare before this economic mess hit, I also doubt many of them are intentionally lazy. Kept from completing adequate education, perhaps. Faced with daunting societal challenges that Hall, a privileged white guy, never faced. Never learned the skills of responsibility, definitely. But lazy? At least not until society offered no alternative. I note that Hall and many in state governments (even in wealthy and progressive Mass.) never offered that "lazy" person much of a chance to escape being a burden to the rest of us.

I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.

The housing bubble was not caused by the Community Reinvestment Act. That program required participants to prove they could repay their loans. However, the CRA is frequently blamed because it helped mostly Black people and many complainers like to grab onto the racist angle. The rest sound like an overgeneralization.

Hall's rant goes on, aiming at such targets as Islam, race, media complaining about Bush and praising Obama, global warming demanding he accept a lower standard of living, drug addicts, illegal aliens, latte liberals who trash the military.

It's all so much conservative blather and I don't trust what conservatives say these days. He sounds like a privileged person who has no compassion for other people, or even for getting his story straight.