“Before I launch into my tirade, Alpha,” writes Post blogger Wharf Rat in comment #49, “please remember that you and I VERY STRONGLY AGREE about personal responsibility. I do not expect a damn thing from others and would probably starve before humiliating myself asking someone for, say, four bucks or a sandwich. However, one thing I just don’t understand about ‘I’m not a commie’ arguments is that they focus on people at the lower end of the economic spectrum who are inevitably characterized as lazy freeloaders…. For those of you who ‘do not believe in a socialistic society,’ why do you not critique the other end of the capitalist economic spectrum?”