To: durasell
Matthew Yglesias doesn't appear to understand the logical conclusion of his argument. If America has gotten better as the number of government dependents has risen, then he must conclude we should make everyone dependents as soon as possible. This is the Marxist argument so successfully demonstrated in the USSR and East Germany in the last century. Yes, the free market engine has been able to pull the increasingly heavy baggage cars for the last few decades, but as some point we reach a tipping point. It would seem prudent to consider that such a point may have been reached when the people in the baggage cars outnumber the number of people pulling it.
To: Old North State
“It would seem prudent to consider that such a point may have been reached when the people in the baggage cars outnumber the number of people pulling it.”
Yeah, the little choo-choo is gonna have a massive train wreck.
12 posted on
09/22/2007 5:34:20 PM PDT by
Inge_CAV
To: Old North State
The point is that we have an increasngly complex country to look after. Folks don’t feel as if they benefit from gubmint services because those services are transparent to them.
16 posted on
09/22/2007 5:49:34 PM PDT by
durasell
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