Thatcher on the Good Life and How to Live It

What Thatcher knew, what Reagan knew,what the Regular Guy's dad knew, and what all common-sensical regular guys through time immemorial have known, is that living a good life isn't rocket science.   Here's how Margaret Thatcher described it:

"My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police."
 

Anybody really believe that American wouldn't be a better place if we all thought like this?   Instead we have a nation of disability scammers and assorted layabouts; a nation of borrowers, buying ephemeral pleasures today while impoverishing our children and our children's children; a nation of defaulters; a nation of scofflaws.