10-25-2011, 03:08 AM
dave- hey, no worries. My aside was intended to be humorous. I contemplated a discussion about 'finding my thread in the Burger King parking lot with flames on the side and dubs on the wheels' too 
Besides, I participated in that discussion as well , so, hey, it's cool and fun. Sometimes my train of thought will derail itself !
I'll agree with Ted on the type of libertarianism that each group embraces.. his comment on the TEA brand is quite telling ... "Just the stuff they don't like". Well put.
The bootstrapping concept is of course courtesy of Hoover. The ability of Americans to actually 'pull themselves up' is more and more limited, IMHO, regardless of ethnicity, but more specific to socio-economic standing.
I had a nice discussion with a doctor I met at a party yesterday.. he works in the NICU at an inner city hospital. His comment was that many poor women come in after they are released from the hospital and want a copy of the birth certificate. So they can get benefits. That implies a certain level of intergenerational dependence on the public programs which implies a level of futulity, at least for those subset of the population, to a 'bootstraps' program.
Besides, I participated in that discussion as well , so, hey, it's cool and fun. Sometimes my train of thought will derail itself !
I'll agree with Ted on the type of libertarianism that each group embraces.. his comment on the TEA brand is quite telling ... "Just the stuff they don't like". Well put.
The bootstrapping concept is of course courtesy of Hoover. The ability of Americans to actually 'pull themselves up' is more and more limited, IMHO, regardless of ethnicity, but more specific to socio-economic standing.
I had a nice discussion with a doctor I met at a party yesterday.. he works in the NICU at an inner city hospital. His comment was that many poor women come in after they are released from the hospital and want a copy of the birth certificate. So they can get benefits. That implies a certain level of intergenerational dependence on the public programs which implies a level of futulity, at least for those subset of the population, to a 'bootstraps' program.