Reply #14: Way to live up to the RW stereotype of liberals.

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This is how RWers prefer to paint policy discussions:

LWer: "Wouldn't it be great if we could just give tons of government freebies to everyone?"
RWer: "How will we pay for that? I mean, the money's got to come from somewhere."
LWer: "Whatever. That's not important. What's important is the government can give us free stuff."
RWer: "But it's not free. We have to pay for it, the government is just a regulatory body determining what goes where. We can't just vote ourselves free stuff. We have to pay for it too, and if we don't even determine what we're going to be paying for, how can we ever..."
LWer: "Details, details. Gimme free stuff."

Of course, the truth is that Democrats are just as concerned about responsibility as Republicans are, if not more so. We like government programs in some situations because the free market isn't capable of safely and efficiently providing absolute necessities requiring major investment like roads, like police, like fire departments, and like hospitals. Unfortunately, it seems there are indeed quite a few liberals happy to fulfill Rush's portraiture of them as inhabiting a dreamworld where a trillion dollars is a detail.