(January 8, 2015 at 3:16 pm)Heywood Wrote: I don't like many provisions of the patriot act, but if some information comes from those provisions that helps the government prevent a terrorist attack, should I say the government shouldn't have acted on that information as a matter of principle? I wouldn't.....would you?
The government is forced to abide by the requirements of the Patriot Act. The Koch brothers aren't required to apply for subsidies they claim to be against.
That means that your analogy is inapt.
(January 8, 2015 at 3:16 pm)Heywood Wrote: The Koch brother take the subsidy because it would be stupid not too. Just because they take the subsidy doesn't mean they support it any more than you or I support the patriot act just because we benefitted from it in someway.
No, they're taking the subsidies because they're hypocrites. They're not required to do so, and if they truly believed what they espoused then they could simply give the money back.
But they want to eat their cake and have it, too, and bank on people believing their words, not their actions.
Principled people don't bend their beliefs because it's profitable.
