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Originally Posted by OBW
I was not lecturing you about who you blame. But nothing much has changed. I prefer the overall economic policies of the conservatives, but somehow there is always something more to spend money on, no matter which side you are on.
I am at that point where I can start to be like my aunt who just thinks the whole world is under the control of the people with the black helicopters and it would be better to just die today than have to live with any of it.
Or I can point at the problem and ask what could be the solution. And when the push back is "It's so big we just can't do anything about it" (not talking about you) then it is evident that we need to change our thinking from fixing everything to fixing something while trying to at least keep a hold on everything else. As Dr. Leo Marvin suggested to Bob "baby steps." Don't either cow at the existence of $20T or open your mouth and demand to eat it all in one bite.
I know that a nearly endless war in Iraq followed by ISIS is a drain. But there are segments that would jump at the chance to keep us all so worked up over ISIS that we keep pumping all that money that could go to us in the U.S. and instead is being pumped like New year's fireworks into the deserts of the Middle East.
Yeah, if we didn't have ISIS, then someone would figure out how to raise the poverty level and pump it all into an ever growing welfare plantation.
ZNP doesn't like slaves. But the existing welfare system creates a lot of slaves. Slaves to those who will give them money for nothing (except votes — and the chicks aren't even free).
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OK. Sounds like you made all my points better than I could.
Actually I liked Dubya as a person, yet some of his policies were naive and in the long run created more problems than they solved.
But I know people like your aunt. And they are not kooks. And btw a few years ago the military did a few black helicopter "exercises" in my town. And there's nothing you can do about it.