Republicans are making similar noises these days as well. Walter Williams calls it government-sponsored immorality. My own interpretation is that it is an evaporation of standards of just conduct. By this I mean the kind of rules we all follow when waiting in line at a movie theater. There are no laws governing this, no Line-Police.
Philosophers call it the Public Goods Argument.
The welfare state is such a sparkling success that statists have been able to justify its expansion with every new level of human misery it has produced. Civil law has become distorted to the point where incredible damage awards for the most paltry of imagined wrongs have created an atmosphere in which it is increasingly difficult for individuals and businesses to plan ahead. The law enforcement community is being freed from constitutional restraints and developing an agenda of its own. But these things are symptoms, as is the chaos they produce. The true nature of the illness that both produces and is produced by such trends, like a vicious cycle of disease begetting disease, is human irresponsibility.