Rick directly and in a very big way contradicts himself:
“Both parties, liberals [he means Demoraticans] and conservatives [he means Republicans], have contributed to the rapid growth in the federal government and the crushing debt with which we must now deal.”
Then he concludes:
“The evidence that the extremes of both parties have a stranglehold on power in Congress is fairly convincing. The center, for all intents and purposes, is gone. Almost all Democrats are liberals today and all Republicans are conservatives.”
Rick excoriates the way things worked in the past when the massive government was built by parties cooperating. But he says the solution for today’s spendthrift problem in DC is for a return to the way things were in that past. This piece is a heartfelt and passionate plea for a style of cooperation that is putting us and our progeny right into the poorhouse.
In the first quote he says the way things used to be was bad because it got us into a fix with big government and big spending. In the second he says the way things used to be was good because everybody was more moderate and cooperated in building a great big government together.
This piece is a heartfelt and passionate plea for a cooperation that started in the past and has gradually put us and our progeny right into the poorhouse. It is also a mindless logical fallacy.
