@CaptainHarley Yes, but there are many that would call that a subsidy and therefore un-American. If you can’t make it on your own (or, more likely, on your parent’s money, or their parents, or…) then tough shit!
Or are you saying that our current economic system is faulty as well? Many Conservatives are against paying for universal healthcare or subsidizing the poor (who are all crack addicts anyways) yet sees no problem taking taxpayer money for other things, like war in Iraq or Halliburton contracts.
Similarly, they see no problem with healthy people with insurance subsidizing sick people with their premiums, poor people subsiding rich people (many financial institutions made a huge chunk of their money from predatory practices). or making those of us without children subsidize public schooling, and they see it as more fair to make those with 35% of the income to pay 60% of the income tax than for the rich to pay even their fair share (which, truth be told, isn’t much more than they already pay and far less than they did pre-Reagan).
Whatever system is best is definitely not the system we have. And seeings how every other industrialized nation has either avoided the problems we have or outgrew them before our nation’s founding, I can’t help but think that they are onto something.