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September 13, 2005

Notes from Ferdy - Active Malice

by Ferdinand T Cat

There has been a lot of buzz about Barak Obama's alleged statement that "passive indifference is as bad as active malice". I know many of you are offended by this statement on multiple levels, but I think it's a good sign. You see, what Barak Obama is saying is that active malice is no worse than passive indifference.

I have here a graph from the Heritage Foundation showing the cost, in inflation-adjusted dollars, of passive indifference.

continual increases in welfare spending

The graph stops at the year 2000, so I have a chart from NRO showing the growth rate of passive indifference during Bush's first term.

chart_moore3-10-05.gif

I try to be logical about things. Given that cross-burnings and lynchings are hideously immoral, and spending trillions of dollars is just as bad, then logic tells me spending the trillions of dollars is hideously immoral. I'm not completely cold-hearted: I'm willing to put up with the trillions of dollars if they're helping to end poverty, but if Senator Obama, the great golden boy of the new Democratic majority, says it's not working, I am not going to argue. It's not like the War on Poverty made a whole lot of sense in the first place.

So it's time to stop all this political bickering and listen to the Democrats: end welfare now! It's just as bad as active malice!

And it's the only logical thing to do.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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