Our Wealthy Overlords — The richest counties in America are in the Washington D.C. suburbs where reside the federal bureaucrats who make their six-figure pay and get their early retirements on backs of those who have to actually produce things. 
Forbes.Com reported last April that the three richest counties in the United States were: Falls Church, Va.; Loudoun County, Va.; Fairfax County, Va. with Howard County, Md. coming in fifth behind Hunterdon County, N.J.
These people don’t lobby for government programs because they want to help the poor or even, in many cases, to defend our country.
They want these programs because they give them soft, easy lives.
It’s sort of the same thing that motivated the Sheriff of Nottingham.