ANSWER: I don’t even think they realize – in this Administration right now, I don’t think people understand what they were trying to do. I think they opened up Pandora’s box, and they’re not happy with what they wished for.
Failed Conservative Values: David Lutness on Me Firstism
The conservative, just like the progressive, is not monolithic. There are many conservatives who think that they should be allowed to proceed without the interference of government. There is also a large segment of people who call themselves conservative who believe they should be allowed to proceed with the benefit of government. So they pay lots of men money and they get things like new big contracts to provide over in Iraq – like Halliburton.
EDWIN: What is the value in one word?
ANSWER: Me first. Very often conservative values work for the people who have them. They have failed society. If you say that the conservative values are the people who argue that you need to burn coal without stripping the stacks so that we can have cheap electricity without having to worry about or pay for the fact that burning coal is polluting the ocean,
Now they are telling us to only turn it on once a week or maybe once a month, or once a year. Or don’t feed tuna to anybody under the age of six. A direct consequence of burning coal, by the way.
It’s an ongoing problem. It hasn’t just happened in the past and stopped. We’re still putting mercury into the ocean, because we don’t care.
Question.
What's the Progressive counter value to Greed?
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