[SauronOfMordor]

That's the whole socialist/democRat argument in a nutshell -- that we are too stupid, selfish, short-sighted, whatever, to manage our own money and our own lives, and the *only* way we can survive in this big bad world is to hand over all control (and money) to the oh so wise politicians.

That's the whole attractiveness of Socialism to the intelligencia (alias the chattering class): they visualize themselves as the "planners" of the planned economy

[NYC GOP Chick]

That's the whole attractiveness of Socialism to the intelligencia (alias the chattering class): they visualize themselves as the "planners" of the planned economy

Yep. They claim to be *sooo* much smarter and more caring than the rest of us -- but the reality is that they just need to think so highly of themselves.