Time magazine Sept. 17 issue cover story was "One Nation Subsidized - How Big Government underwrites your life."

The author, a young married father of two, pointed out the subsidies he gets (and many of us get) that we don't even realize, including:
billions spent by fed gov't to provide clean water; cotton subsidies approaching $1.3 Billion a year; home office tax deductions; energy subsidies totaling more than $138 Billion a year to defray electricity costs; Charitable tax deductions; Depreciation of business property like computers and other capital goods cost the feds $5.7 Billion in 2011; Deductions for health care expenses; Home mortgage interest deductions = $84 Billion/year; subsidies for energy efficient home improvements; Federally subsidized home flood insurance; etc. etc.

Basically we're all moochers in one way or another, if that's how we want to look at it.