# 98
He says,
"Actually all kidding aside, I wanted an answer to the question....all I got was confrontation and idiotic posts."
So when you give him an answer (#98), he feels quite justified to sneer back,
"Expensive maintaining an empire."
Which strikes me as being what he intended all along. Maybe he's a Ron Paul disciple or maybe he's a troll.
Either way, his is a deadend conversation.