We must eliminate Chavez.

[mburbank]

" I really don't care about you or any of the poor people in this country."
OAO

"it's not that I don't give a crap. "
OAO

I'm sorry, I must have missed the finely honed nuance of your argument.

"I don't need shit from the likes of you."
Actually, you do. You desperately need mounds of shit from any half way intelligent person you meet. I've rarely met anyone who needed it more and I wouldn't be giving it to you if I didn't think so. Any fifteen year who feels his grasp of economic theory bares at all on the actual existance of real people working and struggling around him and is so calcified, undeveloped and uninterested emotionally is crying out for buckets and barges and tractor trailor loads of shit. Half of the stuff you write could be replaced by a simple sentence saying "I beg you to give me as much shit as you've got time for"

"My uncle lives in poverty, my grandparents can barely pay their bills. They are 67 years old and cannot afford to retire. "

I really don't care about your Uncle or your grandparents. You know why? Hmm? Because they are rich. If they lived in a third-world environment, I might care. But they don't, so take they should take their blessings, and let the private sector do it's work so that everyone will benefit.

Oh, wait. I don't feel like that at all. I don't know your grandparents or uncle, but I don't think he should have to live in poverty and I think your grandparents should retire in decency. I don't have to know anything about them accept that they're people and our country is rich enough that they should have a human level of comfort and dignity. I think the fact that I have more compassion for people I've never met than you do for your own family is instructive. I'm happy that at least some of my immoral taxes go to safety nets instead of weapons and refinancing the national debt. I see that as being part of a decent society. I'm sure that's not Ayn Randian enough for you but giving a crap about people I don't know just because they are humans and shouldn't suffer rarely fits into economic theories.