People WORK to provide for their families. People start a business to get rich. Very successful entrepreneurs tend to be motivated by more than mere earthly riches. Influence or power or, as Schumpeter put it, dynastic aspirations. Anyhow, go pound sand, you self-important little blowhard.

Nope. I mean forty years ago.

***You know JC, I have wondered the same thing myself. He runs these economic equations at us, which is impossible to support or refute in the short space we have to post, and thinks that if he dazzles us with a formula, that suffices as an answer. It doesn't take an economist to know that government stimulus programs fail every time they're tried.*** Here, too, you think everyone is petty like you. What do I care about dazzling you? What I care about is stupid platitudes like "it doesn't take an economist to know that government stimulus programs fail every time they're tried." This is zombie nonsense that you picked up somewhere, and in the absence of the decency to actually know something about these things, you try to flimflam..

H8***Your problem is that pompous arrogance that prevents you from differentiating what you want to be true from what is real.....I feel sorry for you...*** And YOUR problem is that you are so enslaved to your resentment and feelings of inferiority that you cannot even think straight in the face of arrogance. What do YOU care if I am arrogant? I never care if someone feels superior to me. What's it to me? But you clowns are so jittery, so rickety, that when someone is arrogant, all bets are off. The discussion is over and the rest of us have to nursemaid your wounded feelings. It is stupid nonsense and one way "conservatism" is just stinking things up. Take a show, chump. You stink.

Opinions and knowledge are different. I know that. You do not. Here is another thing I know that you do not: although opinions differ from factual knowledge, there are true opinions and there are false opinions, and moreover, as rational men, we are morally accountable for the truth and falsity of our opinions. Opinions are the life of the soul. Unfortunately for you, you do not know what principle looks like, so you hate principle when it comes along--in this case, in the form of me.

Okay, kids, this grownup has real world stuff to do. It is getting thick, as the power of my objective reasoning is causing you half-pints to spit and sputter and, maybe, find solace in one another. Dig you later, when I have some time. Thank god for that eighth grade typing class that enables to take on multiple punks at the same time. Between that and an orderly mind, you nitwits have to cry into each other's shoulders. There is an alternative, of course: rethink your assumptions, like grownups are supposed to do when their convictions fail the rational test.

what a moron. Look, youngster, if you cannot keep up, then shut up.

:Marxist fraud" certainly helps you cope with the reality that liberal rationality kicks your backside everytime "it" appears on these threads.

What a stupid loser.

Wrong, chump. What is not working is YOUR nonsense. The evidence proves it, as I have proven it on this thread with my principled, economic reasoning.

"It"? Clever. Non-Kantian, of course. We liberal rationalists understand that all people are ends in themselves, not a means to an end, but "it" nicely sums up your character and the way you think.