>>There is another principle involved here - one should never give in to a blackmailer. All is does is to ensure that the blackmail never ends.

I can't think of a revolutionary hero who was not labeled blackmailer or worse by the incumbents before they were overthrown. The trouble is that the 2012 variety of "blackmailers" aren't just upset about taxation without representation, they're calling for help to feed their kids and some people seem determined to tell them to eat cake.

>>Oh, I see. You also subscribe to the philosophy that if you own a business, you didn't build that. Someone else made that happen.

LOL, I responded to your anecdote that's only relevant if the unemployed can become young white women to increase their chances of a bar job. Even if they could do that, these days there's so much competition for paying work that even this sort of drastic change is no guarantee of success. Sheesh, these days some job seekers are expected to work for free or even pay the employer to get a foot in the door. I can't imagine that you would have stuck around in the bar if you had to pay for the privilege, but these days there might be 2 or 3 people willing to work for free to get experience in hope of an eventual paying job. This doesn't go away because you attach it to a discredited misrepresentation of what Obama said on a completely different topic.

>>We will just have to agree to disagree. It seems to me that you believe in the collective and I believe in the individual.

Actually I believe in both. Insisting that one is always superior seems to me like insisting that Tabasco sauce belongs in every dish and anybody who disagrees is anti-flavor.