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I was living off of the charity of friends. The charity of friends - do I make myself clear? I never applied for welfare or food stamps because - silly me - I t

I was living off of the charity of friends. The charity of friends - do I make myself clear? I never applied for welfare or food stamps because - silly me - I thought that was for people who really needed it. This is the strongest point in the article. I was commenting on the Washington Post site yesterday in response to somebody complaining about Virginia rejecting $125M in blood money, who said: "it sucks I cannot find a good, full-time job in my line of work" I responded: "Yes, it does, but you're being picky. I don't like the idea of my taxes going to people like you who are hunting for a dream job. It should go to people who actually can't find work." A good segment of Democrats in the US are talking out of their asses because they are not truly for redistribution of wealth, but rather are driven by a bizarre sense of entitlement. Case in point: All of Obama's nominees who have cheated their taxes. Steal from the rich when you're poor, then steal from the poor when you're rich. At least Republicans don't advocate the former.

DanielBMarkham 18y ago
Downmodded for picking out parties. You can talk about economic theory without pointing fingers. Once you start identifying real parties and real people, other commenters will turn off their reasoning skills and start yelling "It's politics! It's politics! We can't have that here!" And they'll be right.
- erlanger 18y ago
  Unfortunately, we can only have true separation of concerns in our software. American economic policy is intrinsically attached to partisanship, and this article is all about policy.
  - DanielBMarkham 18y ago
    I believe that with systems design or politics, people are able to talk about it in the abstract much more easily than in the concrete. Politics is an unusual thing -- it demonstrates how basically irrational people are. For me, that makes it an interesting problem in communication: because may times the difficult things to talk about are the most important.

DanielBMarkham 18y ago

Downmodded for picking out parties. You can talk about economic theory without pointing fingers. Once you start identifying real parties and real people, other commenters will turn off their reasoning skills and start yelling "It's politics! It's politics! We can't have that here!" And they'll be right.

erlanger 18y ago
Unfortunately, we can only have true separation of concerns in our software. American economic policy is intrinsically attached to partisanship, and this article is all about policy.
- DanielBMarkham 18y ago
  I believe that with systems design or politics, people are able to talk about it in the abstract much more easily than in the concrete. Politics is an unusual thing -- it demonstrates how basically irrational people are. For me, that makes it an interesting problem in communication: because may times the difficult things to talk about are the most important.