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I read the first question offered to Mr. Benton in this PBS discussion group and his reply. He immediately charged off on a typical, rambling, liberal laundry list of not only the nation's but the world's problems only indirectly responding to the question. One of liberals own problems is their penchant for digression and wild statements only partially relevant to the question proposed. But I'll bet he's a big hit at swanky, elite, lib cocktail parties where logic and reason have only a nodding acquaintance .

Rich find from 1999, dighton.

NICHOLAS BENTON: "Well, I think that one of the biggest issues is the budget surplus... it's between a tax cut on the one side or fixing Social Security and Medicare on the other side... this budget surplus, which is really a manifestation of the enormous amount of economic wealth that the nation is generating, can be put to in terms of solving some other very fundamental problems we have with our society and with the world... There should be a great national debate on how to deploy this surplus, this wealth ...to fix some very fundamental problems ... Social Security, Medicare...I don't think the public is clamoring for a tax cut...look at the growth of the prison population in the United States...the spread of AIDS...problems of under-development... how to best deploy our national wealth over the course of the next century."

Marxo-the-Clown