This one was too good to ignore ;o)

>In a word, you’re going to have to do a lot better than what you wrote to win me over to your side (I know, I know….you don’t give a hoot if I’m on your side).
And it’s not just Eric – it’s all those of like-minded frame of mind, who leave me totally skeptical not only as to their arguments but of their understanding of the basics. Eric’s rant comes across not only as irrational…..it positively smacks of infantilism. But it is a very common stance among those with his points of view.Take for example his deprecation of Ivy League educations. Fact of the matter is, many of Obama’s “inner circle” have never even been near an Ivy League college or university (just looking at the way they dress is proof positive of this), and the vast majority of government employees, even those in the upper echelons of government bureaucracies wouldn’t recognize an Ivy League school if they crashed into its main campus gate while on a drunken binge.Take for another example, Eric’s plea that he just wants “….to be left alone to take care of ourselves and our families without government meddling…”. Ok, let’s do that.First, we’ll cancel all government subsidies to higher education. That would mean – instantly – the complete collapse and shut-down of most colleges and universities country-wide.<

No, it would be the collapse of an artificially stimulated higher education economy, grown fat an lazy on subsidies. Best thing that could happen to higher ed.

<Second, we’ll cancel all government subsidies allocated to “health and welfare”. That would mean, among other things, the complete collapse and shut-down of all major hospitals country-wide. And this would happen overnight…..not 2-3 years down the road.Hoping to get your child or ageing parent vaccinated against next season’s flu outbreak? Forget it. It won’t have been developed…after all, the National Institute of Health will have had its doors shuttered long since and its employees scattered to the winds like so many bed bugs.Expect to send out Xmas cards this Yule Tide? Good luck. You’ll have to hand-deliver them yourself from Alaska to the Florida Keys. After all, the Postal Service will be but a memory.Anxiously awaiting the latest information on the whereabouts and diabolical schemes of Osama Bin Laden and epigones? Well, you better brush-up on your Arabic and pay close attention to the Al-Jazeera daily broadcasts out of Doha. Because the National Security Agency will have been dismantled and it’s high-tech equipment sold on ebay for a song.And so on. Gimme facts, gimme genuine arguments. Not twisted illogical and non-sensical rants and raves about the “Constitution” and “States’ rights” and all that malarkey.<

The facts have been there all along. The twisted logic is emanating from you.

You’re tired of government interference? I’m tired of hearing arguments from both sides but especially from the “right” that sound like the squawking and squealing of a major Dodo bird as it flaps its useless wings in futility.