When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.
The Tea Party claims to want small government.
I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.
Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.
If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.