If it sometimes feels like almost everyone is on the government dole except you, there may be a reason for that sensation: According to a recent study one-third of all income in the United States comes in various forms of “social welfare benefits.”
The trend toward a growing proportion of the population relying on government programs instead of labor for its income has been an observable phenomena since at least the days President Johnson’s “Great Society” programs were initiated in the mid-1960s. Now, however, the percentage of income received from the government is equal to half of all income received from working for a living, and federal and state budget deficits are metastasizing as politicians whose reelection depends on giving away “other people’s money” find themselves running out of working citizens to tax.
I guess it's odd in that my disaffection from Mormonism hasn't changed my belief that every able man should work, except that I would also say that every able woman should work as well. Nor do I believe it moral for people to exercise their autonomy in the decision to have a child only to place that responsibility for raising that child upon Hillary Clinton's "village." But that's human nature and as long as you're on the better end of such injustices, there isn't really much of a problem.
I guess for some when this is the only life you get and not taking money from other people means facing the reality that working for a living isn't much of a living at all, socialism makes good sense. Maybe that's why I never could get completely down with the Christian ethic. My heart still yearns for fairness. But that is not to be found in this world amongst these people.