When I read your answer Billy, I see it as a response to the posted question, "What is wrong with exempting the wealthiest from the tax cuts and getting this legislation passed?"

I understand that we all don't think the same way. It was something I pointed out to Villages Kahuna on a discussion that kept going around and around when he couldn't see the answers that were being given. It is that right brain, left brain thing I suppose.

Sometimes I believe it happens, and I am just as guilty as anyone, when we are so set to prove a point and/or to get an expected answer that we don't think outside a particular word.

I read an excellent column by Thomas Sowell, "The Danger of Catchwords." If you shutdown your thinking because a certain word is said or isn't said, like TARP or stimulus or tax cut or tax increase; well as Sowell points out in his coulumn, in the words of philosopher Thomas Hobbes: words are wise men’s counters but they are the money of fools.

Part 1: http://townhall.com/columnists/Thoma...money_of_fools

Part 2: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...-thomas-sowell

Part 3: http://townhall.com/columnists/Thoma...fools_part_iii