 Here's what he wrote in Hillbillyology, quote, "'What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly, it's not your fault you're a loser, it's the government's fault.'" He also says, "'If you believe that hard work pays off, then you work hard. If you think it's hard to get ahead, even when you try, why try at all? Similarly, when people do fail, this mindset allows them to look outward. I once ran into an old acquaintance at a Middletown bar who told me that he had recently quit his job because he was sick of waking up early. I later saw him complaining on Facebook about the Obama economy and how it had affected his life.'"