|
If you ask a person, who generally has a distaste for anything and everything he perceives as a "government handout" or "stealing my money and giving it to slackers" the answer is we can't afford anything---ever, regardless of any temporal economic situation, good or bad. And he doesn't give two hoots in hell what the ramifications are to his fellow countrymen so long as everything is fine and dandy in his warped little world of Gilded Age "exceptionalism" and John Wayne re-runs.
Some call this "rugged individualism", some call it "selfishness". Whatever you want to call it, I'd say it's only a good thing to a point....we should be ever vigilante as to what our government is doing with our money. However, if we let the self absorbed take over and allow their psychosis to run amuck, they will choke off every last dime and civilization itself will grind to a halt, degenerating into a anarchal nation of Social Darwinist Baboons.
Sleep tight.
Dave
__________________
"When the lie is so big and the fog so thick, the Republican trick can play out again....."-------Frank Zappa
Last edited by BlueStreak; 08-22-2012 at 04:23 PM.
|