Reply #75: No, still the same objection

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Voluntarily tightening the belt is fine. Cheering because someone else can't buy food is not fine. If you think that a bit of want will make people more likely to oppose the current war, or future wars, you're wrong. It's more likely to have the opposite effect. It almost always does.

You're celebrating over people suffering. There's no way to spin that positively. It's the same logic that Bush is using in Iraq-- we have to kill some folks to save the rest. I don't buy that.

If it turns out that the only way people realize they are being lied to is to suffer, then so be it. But I won't cheer for the suffering, and I'll do my little part to help people in trouble, not push them further into it. To me, that's being a Democrat.