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To: TimF who wrote (220399)	2/22/2005 10:30:25 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588370

I don't see your example as being relevant to my point. It is relevant to the distinction between "fixed in your ways", and political ideology, but I think we mostly agreed on that one. IMO, there is nothing important in long and deep per se. It can be accomplished in relatively short order, on the neighborhood of a human lifetime. All that is required for one to have special attachment to any ideology is to grow up in it. Hence a religion or political philosophy that is 100 years old is as good as one that is 1000 years old for the majority of individuals. That is my point. I think we would be better off with 10% less spending by the government and a deficit that is 2% greater than we are in our current situation, but not everyone agrees. Well, that is Ronnie's heritage. Like I say, that was a shift in conservative political thought, since many conservatives now take that view. IMO, the issue that Keynes (sp??) failed to address is that for any democracy, now is always a better time to spend, and the future is always a better time to pay.