Mitt gets booed at the NAACP convention.

[Griff]

Sorry, but I still disagree.

I'd still like to pursue the idea that Mitt seems to be getting at despite his lack of commitment to it. Free stuff for everyone is a problem. Every government program from the F-35 to Head Start to corn subsides to tuition assistance to bank and auto bailouts builds dependence. Some folks would like to ask which ones are worth the price without being called an anti-American, racist, farmer blaming, middle class killing, capital hating, union buster. We attack because it is our livelihood, our support structure, or maybe even our belief system appears to be on the chopping block. We are dependent on a program. Is our level of dependence acceptable or unacceptable? If we grow government we grow dependence, at what point is that no longer sustainable? The USSR fell, obviously too dependent. Greece is close, probably too dependent for American sensibilities and let's face it, not a productive society. Our commitment to right wing spending (guns not butter) seems close to Greece's belief in left wing spending maybe we're already too dependent or just out of balance.

It is very hard to shed our skin and look at this rationally. I work for a non-profit with a Head Start contract. Is it happenstance that the only untouchable program in my previous list is Head Start? You are a very left wing kid whose views are probably largely unchallenged at a very left wing college, can you shed that skin when you talk politics, because we are talking about a whole country here not just conservative PA or liberal Vermont.