I like what Jesus said: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
What I don't get, is why any self identified "conservative" or Republican would ever have the gall to quote that?
It's been so VERY long since any Republican made a proposal to "teach a man to fish". Because to do that, you'd have to actually set up a program for for doing just that. OMG! A program? :shock: :horror:
"Wait a second, you want to do WHAT???? You want to give that poor man a basic, dependable, beginner fishing kit??????????????? Why you lazy teat-sucking socialist! And BAIT? wtf? You want to give this poor destitute person BAIT? Why, my grandfather tied his own flies! I have them in a glass case somewhere, because I'm such a brilliant conservative investor... see, I'm investing by saving the stuff passed on to me by my betters, ancestors... brilliant eh? Oh yeah, back to those poor schmucks who don't know how to fish..."
"Uh, say now, look'here, if we pass legislation that provides for a tax credit for first time fishermen's gear, I could provide the US Taxpayer with a bang-up fishing kit through my contacts in China. Yeah, maybe we should expand this program. I'll head it up, and it will be an economic boon (to me), we'll keep government small too, so's none a' them nasty ole regulaters come sniffin' around this here bi-partisan good thing I got going on (bipartisan: me and my rich Chinese friends, heh heh).
"Now then, my little lie-beral friend, you're going to need textbooks to teach, right? Well did I tell you about the textbook company my friend owns?....."
.....ad infinitum, with lots of complaints about how the government that they have so royally fucked up, is so royally fucked up.
Conservatives. Even their name implies smallness.