everything they can". They can't do both. Stealing everything doesn't leav e anything left over to hand out.
Not the way you formulated the statement. "Stealing everything" is pretty i nclusive, and doesn't leave anything over for handouts.
Sure, and in well-run government programs, it's around 5%
s.
You've been listening to the Tea Party again.
It would be, if it were true. It isn't.
ust
e,
Medicare is reasonably efficient.
The military-industrial complex is remarkably greedy. Read Mary Kaldor's 19
82 book.ink oink. :)
mous book can't remember it...
hever 5% you belong to, it isn't the well-informed one.
That's name-calling? It was you who claimed to be in the top 5% of the popu lation on background knowledge, and has consistently failed to perform at a nything like that level. I certainly checked out de Tocqueville on wikipedi a - I know the limits of my memory, which is good but not eidetic - but if they'd got the story wrong I'd have found a better reference.