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"So we're in a situation now where we fear a backlash from the people who are getting benefits more than a backlash from the people paying for them. Now, at some point that will be a reasonable fear because there are going to be more people getting than paying. And so a backlash from them would be a majority, a large number. We still have more people paying taxes than people who aren't. So the backlash from those people would be larger if it were in unison. In other words, put it this way. Why should we worry more about people who don't work, who don't pay taxes, than we do about the very people who keep the country going, by their industry, their hard work, their commitment. Aren't we placing the concern in the wrong group here? Aren't we sympathizing with the wrong group of people here? See, the regime thinks that those of you who are working, you're only working because you have somehow shafted those who aren't. You've either taken their job or you've taken away their ability, you've taken away their slot in a university, or you have fired them or you've done something, so the people working, the people pulling the cart, they deserve to be punished and find out what life has been like for the rest of America all these 200-plus years. That's what's going on."