tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post7740928721425822061..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: It's officialUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-59050976110594065562017-12-26T09:37:28.885-05:002017-12-26T09:37:28.885-05:00"Merits" are relative, not that I think ..."Merits" are relative, not that I think Protestant evangelicalism is meritorious.<br /><br />The notions that future taxpayers can pay for policies we can't afford out of our own pockets, and that somebody else is always to blame for poor life outcomes are always considered meritorious in a secular democracy, for example.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-68842447545871191052017-12-25T12:47:16.812-05:002017-12-25T12:47:16.812-05:00The Republicans are just returning to their post-T...The Republicans are just returning to their post-TR, pro-big business roots. It's conservatism was simply the way to win over Dixiecrats after the Dems passed the Voting Rights Act, and to pander to Evangelicals looking to use govt to push religious values on a country Christians were already losing on the merits.123https://www.blogger.com/profile/14514075641944568806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-48706474954434644662017-12-22T08:52:39.588-05:002017-12-22T08:52:39.588-05:00If nothing else, it's entertaining to hear fro...If nothing else, it's entertaining to hear from liberals that deficits really do matter.<br /><br />Also, a tax cut is not a subsidy, though I'd agree it is if you're borrowing to fund it.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-51281671785397871432017-12-22T07:21:24.466-05:002017-12-22T07:21:24.466-05:00Nixon took us off the gold standard for just this ...Nixon took us off the gold standard for just this reason. The rest of the west went off the gold standard so that they could fight WWI. Had they remained, that war would have been quite short. Kind of a pity, isn't it, that we can feel the loss of gold much more quickly than the loss of life.unreconstructed rebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550310406767475723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-32998303173720674402017-12-21T14:41:48.809-05:002017-12-21T14:41:48.809-05:00My understanding is that just to stop future expon...My understanding is that just to stop future exponential increase requires at least a 43% real cut in spending yesterday, and an equivalent increase in taxes would grind the economy to a standstill before it could ever be paid and applied.<br /><br />Nobody can stomach a 43% cut in anything now so I expect that to happen sometime between now and never, and what cannot continue will not.<br /><br />This will not change by shuffling around the Ds and Rs in the government or posting memes. There have not been any conservatives in the government conserving anything worthwhile for a long time now.Patrick Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09841521887066909045noreply@blogger.com