re: #106 Dark_Falcon

Obdi, I get yelled at a lot here lately, and I don’t like it. I’m not a liberal and the fact I’m always on the defensive makes things unfun for me. As a result, I’m in a bunker mentality and I try to avoid much of anything “off the top of my head”. Because if its at all wrong I get downdinged and buried under a pile of hostile replies.

So sorry it took me a while, but that’s just how it is.

It took you more than awhile; you haven’t produced anything yet. You produced an article of highly dubious quality that I immediately found a massive flaw in. Unless I missed a post, you haven’t yet answered the challenge.

So far, very few of the self-professed fiscal conservatives I’ve met can do so, either. The most that I’ve been given is people who think rehabilitative programs don’t work (demonstrably false, but arguable), funding for arts and aesthetic building programs— which I can agree with dryly, but if that eats wealth than a lot of what we consider ‘wealth’, like movies, TV, fashion, isn’t actually wealth. The most real example, one that I’ll happily give you, is that government spending on health care often eats wealth because money is spent on the health of those who are too old to be productive. However, I think taking care of the elderly is one of the moral obligations of society.

In the end, we are a society, and it’s very hard to help out a member of our society without benefiting the whole.