On Oct 26, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Jon Louis Mann straw-manned: > a lot of people called congress, against the bailout, but the people > who didn't are the sheep and they are largely those who buy into the > war and straw man attacks against obama.
I doubt very much that you actually know what was in the hearts and minds of every person who did not happen to call Congress to complain about the bailout, and yet you find yourself in a position to call us sheep and to claim that we are those who buy into the war (I don't) and the straw man attacks against (my preferred candidate) Obama. Perhaps I didn't call Congress because I was working a huge amount of overtime during the period during which the bailout was being planned. Perhaps I didn't call Congress because I am just so sick and tired of a system that couldn't possibly care less about what I think that it's just not worth the effort. Perhaps I didn't call congress because I do not pretend that I have a better grasp of a financial system so complex that the world's leading experts on the subject were caught completely unawares. Perhaps there are 300 million other reasons, none of which is "because I am a sheep", as you blithely assume, that explain my fellow Americans' inaction. > i have no problem paying any kind of taxes for the common good; i do > have a problem paying for bureaucratic waste, idiotic wars and > bailing out crooked brokers, who commit insurance, mortgage and > financial fraud! It is beyond almost everyone (although perhaps not you) to know what portion of their taxes go to bureaucratic waste, idiotic wars, and bailing out crooked brokers. It is against the law to withhold that portion, even if you could calculate it. What would you have us do, then? Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
