The rights and responsibilities discussion is central...in the past the left and right were pretty clear about the needs to respect rights and honor our responsibilities, although there were many arguments about what this meant in practice. Now we seem to focus on rights, and selectively at that...  My take on 'fairness' as part of this, a level playing field vs winners/losers.  From an economic standpoint I prefer the level playing field...it forces companies to be better at doing/making rather than at gaming the system. In that I see current deems as much better at this rather than the current reps...think the anti-union policies of Scott Walker which is really about political power and living wages.