I guess the punks might not be as dumb as I suspected, as to what is in their own self interest at least. There's hope!
Not dumb in that sense. Still dumb, arguably, in the sense of caring an excessively great deal about such self-interest to the exclusion of many other concerns.
You don't think this debt run up and 10 trillion underfunded pubic employee pension bomb, not to mention the runaway geezer medical entitlement bomb no matter how costly, old and rich a geezer you are as, is doing anything other than just screwing the heck out of the punks (and that is before we even get to what the teachers' unions have wrought on the quality of their education)? Please help me with some of this, fiscally speaking.
Relax, Torie, I was just pulling your leg.
Speaking seriously, of course there are all sorts of legitimate reasons to be a fiscal conservative, I'd go so far as to say almost certainly more than there are to be a fiscal 'liberal' (the operative word here being not any word at all but the scare quotes) assuming you accept the basics of how the present system operates. The problem for me is, I
don't accept those basics and I have a fairly good idea of what I
would accept (it's not the opebo solution, I promise you) but I have no idea how to get there without massive amounts of collateral damage, so I'm left muddling along splitting the difference and supporting those policies that are
marginally less far from my admittedly over-idealistic beliefs, hoping all the while that we'll be able to muddle through the nonsensical contradictions therein well enough that we keep our dignity intact and don't die in a heap, or at least still have our dignity intact when we do die in a heap.
