Whyyyyy!? Hooooow!? Whooooo!? Whiiiiich!?

Regular commenter chris frazier killed John K. Galbraith.

In a comment Chris said, "[Spending at] the Federal level [was] beyond the point of diminishing returns for just about anything and everything that can and should be done by a group of people."

Now while I would almost completely disagree with that statement in principle and fact, (Space programs, the interwebs, the federal highway system, national parks, the postal service, FDIC, etc...) I am more troubled that soon after Chris acknowledged his hatred for federal spending, progressive Harvard economist John Galbraith died. Coincidence?

Of course there are many examples of federal administrative and financial incompetence, just as there are examples of state, county, civic, NGO, non-profit, private, and individual fiscal mismanagement. It's worth discussing how we might approach spending, how our budgets are bloated with military spending, how we might craft morally responsible budgets, what our priorities as a nation can and should be, how laissez faire anything is typically a mistake. We might even disagree in good faith, but killing the two-time Medal of Freedom winner is well out of bounds.

I now have the moral high ground.