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There are two easy ways to be liked: lie, and spend someone else’s money. Since Roosevelt, government has been an exercise in both. (Obamacare is the latest, and perhaps the most pathetic, example.) Any politician, Hollywood star, businessperson, intellectual, artist, or Pope who aspires to being liked has to champion spending other people’s money, and has to lie that nobody need pick up the tab. These transparently self-serving formulations do not even rise to the level of principles. Then again, those who dish them out are no longer required to have any principles. All is tolerated as long as more is promised. In today’s ethical swindle, those promises are not just bids for popularity, but demonstrations of compassion and moral worth—buying the stairway to heaven on someone else’s dime. Intolerance is reserved for those who denounce the fraud.