The PDP is part of the "nanny state" mentality/mindset. Its social engineering. This has nothing to do with a conservative policy agenda of limited government. Whether its SS, Medicare or the PDP, all three are the part of the government largesse that Free Republic is working to roll back. People who support any of the big three welfare entitlement programs, is not a conservative. I'd call them liberals.
This thread was a discussion about whether the program was meeting its goals. My point was that the program WAS doing what it was intended to do.
A previous post I felt misrepresented my defense of the program's operation as aquiescense to it's existance, and I was simply trying to disavow such a link.
I could be against the war in Iraq, and still defend HOW the war was being fought. Is that a better analogy?