Conservatives would say, the program should not exist. Period. You're digging yourself into a deeper hole. You've been here long enough to know that parsing your remarks, is a tactic that liberals use. Not conservatives. Stay away from the analogies, they don't work well.
I'm not parsing my remarks, I'm explaining your misinterpretation of them.
I'm not in a hole, nor am I digging. Nothing you've said would suggest that the program isn't meeting it's objective -- you simply reject the idea that we should try to meet that objective. I agree with you on that point.
I tried analogies becausce you didn't seem to understand the point directly, and I find that most people who can't understand something directly can be made to understand a point if you put it in terms that are within their life experiences.
I don't ask you to agree with my point, I'm just trying to make sure you understand the point. If you don't understand the point, your opinion of it is meaningless to me, because your opinion would be based on something OTHER than the point.
If you were able to show an understanding of the point, then I would understand your opinion of it. But in fact I don't think we differ in our opinion, just that you misinterpreted my statements because you didn't understand what I was saying and so you think despite my corrections that I wanted this program, or think it is a good idea.