Just came across this article about a woman who is suing Walgreens. She was picking up her prescription, and noticed that the following was typed in a reserved field on a printout that came with her prescription:

“CrAzY!! … She’s really a psycho!!! Do not say her name too loud, never mention her meds by names & try to talk to her when …”

While this is certainly insulting, why is it that her reaction is to sue Walgreens?? You just know she will be suing for at least a couple of million, does she really feel that she is entitled to this kind of money because she suffered a few minutes of embarrassment?

If this happened to me, I’m sure I would be angry and probably even a little embarrassed about it. It’s possible that I would never shop at Walgreens again. Perhaps I would even send a letter to their corporate headquarters. Never, never would I consider a lawsuit.

So what’s wrong with people? Why do we hear about people suing corporations for millions of dollars, over such silly things? Well, I can’t be sure, but maybe it has something to do with this entitlement society that our government has created.

Many, maybe even most, people in this country believe that it is fundamentally right to take money from one group of people, and give it to another group in the form of welfare, prescription drugs, health insurance, college tuition, emergency relief, foreign aid or any one of the hundreds of other programs that promote the redistribution of wealth. If they already believe that some are just entitled to other people’s money, would they not be more likely to look for situations that would entitle them to their “fair share”?

I could be wrong here, but if our society were more about personal responsibility and less about the government trying to solve every problem, I bet we would have less of these crazy lawsuits.