A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.

I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.