You're pretty much a Greek in all but character encoding, as far as I can tell from your oral attachment to the public nipple.
And let me stipulate that I think that's perfectly acceptable as a choice. My chief gripe is the way MY tax dollars are taken to pour down the same little endless circular holes for the $18 trillionth time, while you are all on your high-horse about it.

The man is sane. Apparently this terrifies you, and you have to play some "appeal to authority" card.
That you have precisely zero (0) of substance to say on the man's actual words shouts the impotence of your argument.

Nah, I'm just repeating what I had in economics class. You've become markedly more caustic in the last couple of weeks. Can we explore why?

You mean like burning houses with babies in them ?

I cannot tell whether you're outing yourself as politically left of damn_registrars, or just trolling. Yours is a refined temper tantrum. I suggest you look at Greece, and ask yourself if your Nietzsche-Piven "Will to Diaper" is going to succeed in crying your way to a Socialist Paradise.
Your safety net is a false god, and your austerity an ersatz satan. But sheep are going to believe the lies of Socialists, and culture burned for political power, until the culture gets so weak it implodes completely.
Childish blame is the low road, rather than responsibility. By all means: take it.

Yes, this. If I wanted to communicate using little drawings I'd learn to read and write chinese.I find it much simpler to read the word 'peanut' than to try to remember and identify a potato-looking 8-pixel high symbol. As for remembering the keyboard combination to actually draw it, good luck. Oh, BTW, I hate icons too.

So, the Senator who served in Iraq and has the Ivy league degree is a clown on the take. In contrast, the anonymous blowhard on /. is the straight shooter. I guess that such a scenario is possible. Can you elaborate on why you should be believed over the Senator, please?

By "popular mass media", you mean Senator Cotton?

I'm all for the social safety net that is actually paid for, not lied about via borrowing. However, those into recreational genuflection have bought off on a medicare/social security plantation.
My recommendation is returning power to the states, where budgets are "balanced". The scare quotes acknowledge the speciousness of calling state budgets balanced when the public sector pensions aren't properly funded, and Janet's constantly yellin' for more printing at the Federal Reserve.

People get all religious about the darndest things!

Abort, Retry, Fail

'y' or 'n'

Fox Butterfield, is that you?