Bufoon Right Winger Dr. Mike Adams Makes Pres. Obama's Point- but doesn't know it....

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3. I remember a news show back in the 80s, on the welfare debate...

It was a one-shot "special report" kind of thing, structured to pick a handful of ordinary people and get their views after the presentation of different arguments and counterarguments.

The one guy who stuck in my mind was a man from Arizona, who'd started off as a construction worker, saved up, started his own building supply business, and was taking the now-familiar "I worked hard and made it. the government never handed me a check" view.

Leaving aside how these people were actually chosen, and assuming he represented himself fairly, I found myself having my first bout of arguing at the television set:

"Wait a minute. You're in the building trades in Arizona. A place made ripe for grown thanks to Federal water projects, power projects, and transportation projects. You don't have to have cashed a single government check to have benefited from 'The Government'. What would your taxes be if the State of Arizona had needed to take out bonds to pay for all that?"