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Sadly most of this is true. Black culture is all about style, mostly they don't give a damn about 'white people's learning' I have been around the academic block enough to understand that 90% of the time black people get degrees and accolades that are not deserved when compared against...

Here's a liberal rag's take on this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/05/AR2010030502974.html So by the WHITE HOUSE's own estimates we are set to add $8.5T (on top of bailouts and stimulus) minimum to the national debt by 2020. Trader's chart is actually...

See, you're an idiot. I could equally well put medicare on the top and call it the source of the deficit by drawing the red line there. Gawd there is no hope, some lefty can make any idiotic argument and hermit buys. Nothing like a dishonest drooling hack armed with his dishonest charts.

It's in the chart, why does it need mentioning? Your new chart is again biased, your authors just can't help themsleves can they? Notice how the line at the right is all red, a subtle attempt to give all the new debt Bush's name. Notice how you give Obama only a small part of the sudden ramp...

You lack intellectual integrity to use a chart like that which assumes that all previous entitlements, loss of revenue from a stock market bust and recession, increase in revenue from tax cuts in 2003 (non static models), and all the rest of the budget are somehow irrelevent. I should not...

I didn't dispute the numbers, I put them into context. perhaps that was a bit much. Reagan had to deal with a severe recession, you didn't mention that. We just went $2T in the hole and generated $0.5T of economic activity. That has already passed I don't need to wait for end of his term.

As usual with you hermit, it isn't that simple... and the chart leaves off Obama!! Oh my the higher bars just would ruin the scaling. Let's review: there are 3 branches of government and it is the congress, not the president, that makes laws (budgets). I do agree that Bush and congress...

It's called a government debt bubble. They are probably celebrating that a lot of it is phased in later, but in any event it's monumentally stupid to equate a few days of market activity now with what may happen in 5 years

Well in any event Franklin was a smart guy who saw this coming. The major despots always claim they are looking out for the common people. By using the treasury to buy people you can gain tremendous power and they will willingly give up their freedom. It's the same story told over and over...

yet the Soviet Union showed you that socialist government stifles opportunity. Business tycoons typically do reinvest, see Gates, Allen, and Buffet for examples. Wall street bankers are not really business tycoons, yet the government bailed them out- another strike against gov't run anything...

Charity comes from empathy, socialism/redistribution comes from the political class leveraging the hate and envy of the masses. What capitalist world? There's hardly none left. The US is the only one moving left outside of Venezuela, most everyone else moved left long ago. It's no secret...

Who said it then? paine? tocqueville? If my attributing is wrong then I'll admit it. Franklin had his doubts about the constitution and the durability of the republic, that why I said he might agree with Neo. Got that? I said 'might'. -Ben Franklin

I never said he was wrong, I quoted him twice, I said he 'might' agree with neo based upon the original configuration of the USA. You obviously didn't grasp what I said, nowhere is it at odds with Franklin.

I think Neo is just saying that all democracies are unstable, Franklin may actually agree especially now that we are becoming multicultural. The original USA was a federation, not a republic so that gives some sort of weight to Neo's argument. Certainly democracy is not the best form of...

no, redistribution is from the politics of envy. You can get rid of envy if everyone is miserable equally. The Soviet Union was like that and for a long time the ideal in Sweden was a flat income distribution until they realized they were on the path of economic suicide. Look around the...

Bad choice of time frame. The great society and globalism started full force in the late 60's.

Again the delineation is between rights to freedom from other people's desire to abuse yours, and rights to resources. Obviously slavery should be abolished since it stands in contradiction to freedom. Women voting- no problem. Franklin didn't say voting was the problem per se, but voting...

Politics is about choices, not absolutes, of course there is arbitrariness in the Constitution and bill of rights. What is not included in the foundation is a right to any economic resources or commodities, there is a delineation between positive and negative rights. Rights to economic...

Healthcare is not a 'legitimate gov't objective', in fact healthcare itself is ill defined. Again it comes down to arbitrary creation of a principle and definition where none exists, in that case you can justify almost anything.

'mere rationality'? you simply keep moving the goalpost to other meaningless concepts. The healthcare bill does not promote the general welfare, it will degrade quality and drive up the debt and/or taxes. It promotes individual welfare for a minority, which is not in the constitution.