Kirk, I have only one.....okay two words for your point of view. CHICKEN LITTLE. But according to some modern endings of the tale, C.L. accepted that he was wrong so that his foolishness did not lead him into a perilous predicament. I suspect, however, that you would stubbornly defend your initial thoughts even when Foxy Loxy is basting you for dinner.

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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
-- Thomas Sowell

" I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
-- Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1776