Could This Lump Power the Planet?

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Cannibal

There's some truth to what I said. But I do agree with you that I was generalizing. You weren't supposed to call me on it! I did do it to get Donger's goat and it worked like a charm if you saw his response.

Not speaking for all RWers, but I support government programs that tackle;

1) defense
2) infrastructure
3) technology and understanding of our physical world.

What I oppose is programs that try to manipulate the economy and human interaction [beyond the three angles above]. And I oppose them, not because I don't want the government to try to help people, but because I recognize in human nature that, for every attempt to help, there is a reaction to game the system to our own greatest satisfaction.

So we're stuck between, a free market with those good at capitalism getting rich and those who aren't languishing in poverty, or a progressive government with those good at cozying up to government getting rich and those who aren't languishing at entitlement/subsistance level. And in the second instance, those ill-gotten gains are taken from us with our permission and acquiesence, and entitlement/subsistence existence paralyzises us from action and achievement.