Thanks, Janie.

Amos, (TAGET"L") was my acronym to shorten "(to a greater extent than liberals)". It was lazy of me, but...

1. I didn't want to write it out with each point, and

2. I didn't want to leave it out because, as I see it, nobody is entirely conservative or liberal -- we merely fit somewhere on that scale. Liberals, even if begrudgingly, have to admit the reality of market forces. They may draw different conclusions, but they know that if there is no productivity, there will be no funds to grow the government with which they hope to engineer society.

And conservatives, even if begrudgingly, have to admit that once a principle is forfeited and a government program makes people dependent upon it, they must, henceforth, figure out some way to sustain that program (for humanitarian reasons).

Nobody gets to have it their way. Nobody in the world.