Unfortunately how ideologically scintillating a policy is has become more important than how much it promotes the interests of the American people. Helping veterans is not a very “sexy” topic on the Left, but demonstrating one’s “compassion” by accommodating illegal migration is. But how can I trust in the compassionate motivations of anyone who does not care for his own? If you extend your arm to assist my child while your own child is starving, I will not assume that you are motivated by compassion, I will assume that there is something ulterior in your motives.
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“The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception." -Friedrich Hayek