Thanks, I appreciate the compliment.
I’m also going to echo one of the other posters on the thread. I only post when I think I’ve something to contribute to the discussion.
Another thought for you in regards to the bum versus Jim Taggart.
In David Horowitz’s “Radical Son” he talks about Berkeley, CA and the radical city council that took control of city government. The city council was out of control and pushed through every liberal/socialist agenda/experiment they could think of. It was so bad, citizens had to constantly attend meetings to try and keep things under control. One citizen commented that it wasn’t not possible to “just live” in Berkeley, one had to be active politically and be constantly on guard.
In AS and our current society, both the very wealthy and very poor are waging war on the middle class.
The very rich can afford intrusive government policies, because they’ll still be rich. The very poor don’t mind, because they don’t produce, they merely take.
The middle class, the people who just want to live and go on about their business, are forced to spend their time paying attention to politics. They can no longer allow themselves the luxury of “just living” in the United States.
I heard something funny lately about Berkeley. I seems the “powers that be” decided that all houses must be retrofitted to be energy efficient. 80 year old drafty victorian houses must be sealed and insulated. When the home owners got the bill and figured out how much it would cost them, all hell broke loose!