"People need to work and earn their stuff or they do not appreciate them."

Definitely. I've seen plenty of examples proving that. I'm not in favor of giving people something for nothing, but I am in favor of a reasonable minimum wage law and stuff like that. I think it's in the fine tuning of how to react to things like homelessness, poverty, ghettos, and so on, that people get into these endless arguments. Something obviously needs to be done to correct such situations, but people have trouble agreeing on exactly what. And then, they always want it to come out of someone else's pocketbook, don't they? ;-)