An inconvenient quote

I was flipping through An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems by Glenn Beck and read this quote.

"When you don't perform, you get nothing. The phrase is 'To the victor go the spoils' not 'spoil those who aren't the victor'."

How descriptive or our culture in this day. We praise the failures while punishing the successful. We take from those who work to give to those who don't. It won't be long before the pendulum swings back and we have to start worrying about the self-esteem of the winners.