[massadvj]

Interesting, but completely off-base. The Republican Party has been hijacked by moderates, not conservatives.

The writer reminds me of my colleagues from the days when I was an academic. He never stops to think that I and my employees are fleeced by the state to pay for his life of perpetual navel contemplation.

[freedumb2003]

You said: "The writer reminds me of my colleagues from the days when I was an academic. He never stops to think that I and my employees are fleeced by the state to pay for his life of perpetual navel contemplation. ?

The text said: "I chose an academic career. You opted to join your father’s small manufacturing enterprise. So we encountered government differently. The taxpayers furnished my salary, while government imposed environmental and work safety regulations on your company."

Translation of the text: "You decided to produce capital, wealth, and JOBS without which our nation canot exist. I decided to not work for a living, produce nothing, and poison the minds of the next generation."

Don't you love the "government imposed these beneficial rules on you" rub by this ingrateful idiot?