''What has happened to common sense?"
It morphed into Socialism...which, if left unchecked, degrades into anarchy.
Incidentally, people who don't like to work and thus pay no taxes, do very well in an anarchy.
Can you imagine the cajones on Obama who recently said that our deficits are unsustainable and we can't rely on borrowing from other countries It's not as irrational as it first sounds. Hold on to your wallets....he's setting this country up for a huge tax hike.