#310 Sharmuta

there are no Atheists in a foxhole and there are no strict free-marketeers in a financial meltdown. Big institutions ran to the government as soon as this started.

Government bailed them out.

The reasonable people - captains of industry and “conservative” professors who would otherwise be championing small government and low taxes are resiled to the fact that only Government will get the economy through because only the government has the deep enough pockets.

When the economic situation gets levelled out and the conditions are right to bring back PAYGO, leading to a balanced budget and then a surplus - then - and only then are the wiser heads going to get back on the wagon.

The reflexively anti-government (not limited but anti) attitude exemplified by the teabagging far right has hunkered the Reasonable people down into small isolated cells. If someone identifies as a “conservative” immediately the modern definition is hurled at them and they have to defend Beck/Palin 2012 as the greatest thing since sliced bread.

just my 2 cents ;-)