Only if you don't try to catch onto anything while on the bounce.

In a safety net you can only hang there and wait and hope for a rope to be lowered down to you. You could be stuck there forever. And any attempt to climb out(seeking a relatively low paying job) can lose you your place in the safety net and leave you poorer than you were in the net. It's almost like being punished for trying to get out.

A trampoline won't ket you get comfortable.

Of course I'd prefer to hear what specific policy the trampoline represents in the analogy before judging it.

Then vote for Romney or Obama.

The Status Quo is you could get a cash-for-clunkers voucher worth $5,000 for turning in your garage-stored 2007 BMW 7-series six-speed automatic with Perelli all-weathers and alloy rims, with 15,000 miles.

Or, whatever the leftists or faint-hearted Republicans will come up with next.

So Gingrich has a magic device to change the genes of the poor so they aren't so stupid, irresponsible, and criminal?

And he hasn't used it on himself yet? Huh!

You sure extracted a lot of meaning from that comment.

I think what you meant to criticize was science, or perhaps, more correctly, nature, which makes the things I said true. Reality is not constituted to make you feel happy - what is, is, and what is not, is not.

Do you embrace dysgenics, or what?

Maybe, but look on the bright side. At least this time Newt isn't saying that Mitt denied kosher trampolines to holocaust survivors.

Yet.

I bet he means giving them an actual trampoline...

That's what bothers me so much about Krauthhammer and not-surprisingly Ginrich's statements.

Gov't doesn't tear down the fence. Gov't is a necessary evil to impose societal norms on men and pool resources for what's absolutely necessary. And the hope isn't that it tears down the fence... the hope is that Gov't doesn't BECOME too much of the fence.

Gov't can't life the poor up. Maybe a few cronnies of politicians here or there, and some "pick the winners" among industries. Which are all bad, bad, anti-conservative things.

Why are we talking about "what can Government do fo you?" This is Conservatism.

Let's just get Government out of the way, except for the minimums that you need - to referee the market against fraud, etc. Isn't that what we're for?

What poor people need is a reasonable definition of poor so resources set aside for them don't end up in the hands of people who own their own homes, two cars, a cell phone for every family member, lap top computers and big-screen TV's. One of the reasons this country is drowning in debt is because the federal government is a lousy steward of our money, throwing it around aimlessly without any consideration to who's getting it and what it's being used for. There is something very wrong when children go hungry because their parents spend their welfare checks on cigarettes, illegal drugs and booze. And college loans that are used to buy fancy cars and pay for spring vacations shouldn't be subsidized by taxpayers.

Yeah, that's the metaphor you want, Newton. Poor people rising out of poverty and then tumbling back down again repeating the cycle until they puke. Great plan. *Genius*, really, if you do say so yourself. Can we call this the manic-3-year-old-on-gummibears plan?