Are you a domestic terrorist?

[Jester]

My frying pan is less hot. How nice.

It's not exactly torturous living in, say, Canada. It might not be ideologically to your liking, but the actual living of life is really quite pleasant.

It's this kind of exaggeration that makes people roll their eyes at Objectivists... the constant whining that, despite living in the most pleasant, least dangerous, highest standard-of-living era in history, with more freedoms, more wealth, less oppression - a better life by almost any metric - they keep insisting on using metaphors of torture, slavery, and horror to describe their (comfortable) fate. It's no more attractive when you do it.

I'm not picking sides here. All of the politicians are complicit in feeding the beast. (...) Oh, and to clarify, I still am convinced the WMD were in Iraq at one point. I was not in favor of the occupation, and the nation building portion we were sucked into. Then again, perhaps you shouldn't break it if you don't want to buy it.

The pottery barn rule- Powell was right about that much.

What I'm saying is that it's not just politicians, running off with taxpayer dollars. It's people, yourself included, demanding that they be spent in one way or another, from health care to bombing the snot out of a middle eastern country. I'm no minarchist, I have no problem with democratic nations running debts and accomplishing various goals. But that particular choice of goals was foolish, and extremely expensive. And if you (as you seem to constantly imply) are utterly against raising taxes to fund it, there is no choice: you go into debt to buy your guns just the same as to buy your butter.

-Jester