Can't do right for doing wrong.

It's very easy to give when the going is good - much more difficult to take away when the going is not so good.  When we're used to having something - maybe even come to rely on it - when it's taken away we feel it badly.  There's that old saying "what you've never had, you never miss" but if you have had it, you do miss it.  Several stories about this at the moment - all this business about the lack of respite care, people up in arms about proposed library closures, complaints about the removal of EMA (the weekly sum given to some children to encourage them to continue at school after 16), the high cost of fuel (despite it being in real terms no more expensive than it was back in the 50s) and so on and so on.  We all look at the world through our own eyes and we all have our own ranking of what the priorities should be.  Who'd be a politician when times are bad, eh?