LMAO..... Moral precepts? And you are the one accusing me of being on a specific topic "hobby horse"?, I guess you meant "high horse".
Sorry, but this might be the most vague gibberishy, and goobly goop, I have seen at TBR in awhile. In all respect, WTH are you talking about? Not trying to be rude, but surviving and thriving exists mainly on man's ability to maintain a level of subsidence and wealth, to (1) sustain and grow his family, (2) accumulate stores, to weather economic down turns and storms, (3) Be able to take care of extended families and friends in need, (4) Accumulate enough to be able to influence politcal narrative, be it at a local, state, or national level. (5) Establish enough financial base to not burden children in old age. That is just the cold hard facts, and any less an endorsement of that is unacceptable.
Your dig at me around economic restraint and entitlement is especially puzzling. In my youth, before the time of massive ovespending by the federal government this philosphy may have not have held the same level of importance as now. In that time frame, people were expected to live withn their means, and those who didn't or filed for bankruptcy for were looked down in shame. You can debate the merits of that, but that was the way it was. Nowadays people not only embrace entitlements, but expect them. It has created a mindset in a significant percentage of our populaton, that they can put forth minimal effort in society, since the government wil take care of them anyway. If that doesn't constitute an "immoral precept", I am wondering what you are doing at. a conservative forum.
Additonally, if you read W.F. Buckley's works or watch his Firing Line shows, he periodically refered to the 3 legged stool of conservatism. (1) National Security, (2) Social Conservatism, and (3) Fiscal Conservatism
Get Real....... Sawing off and throwing that 3rd leg into the campfire is NOT in the best interest of anyone wanting the best for our country.
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Catfish, uninterested in engaging in a urinary contest; so pontificate about whatever you choose.
* I meant hobby horse, as ideas give you agita, so your notions remain static.
* The existence of those who preceded us was vibrant because their vision was broad;
yet we who assert greatness, are virtually soulless because our vision is as constricted
as a telephone booth.
* While recalling Buckley, I personalty knew Russell Kirk, a visionary in the mold of Burke
who reminded us that economics and politics came long after principled conservatism
by thousands of years. Most obviously, Conservatism is hardly an adoption agency for
the assorted isms and institutions concocted by Man down thru history.
Nothing further.
