One time I took my wife to the doctor. She could barely walk, her pain level was about a 9.5. The nurse asked her how she was feeling, and she replied, in a voice dripping with agony, “Fine.” I immediately spoke up: “You are not fine! You’re in agony and you’re just hoping for some relief.”
Now, more than fifty years after four years of dorm life, two of my three best friends I met in the dorm. Dorm life expands your social circle and educates you on how to life with people you ordinarily wouldn’t even meet.
If money is finite, then every dollar that goes to one person or group is one taken from another person or group. Tax breaks that assure the rich have more money in their pockets also assure that everyone not rich has less money, and therefore moves farther away from that status. Rank and file Republicans cannot grasp this concept, or choose not to.
One time I took my wife to the doctor. She could barely walk, her pain level was about a 9.5. The nurse asked her how she was feeling, and she replied, in a voice dripping with agony, “Fine.” I immediately spoke up: “You are not fine! You’re in agony and you’re just hoping for some relief.”