The reason I was pressing the issue was because of the hard line stance on entitlements. You were the only one who engaged in a reasonable manner, which I genuinely appreciate. Trust me, I'm not a fan to spending money hand over fist and giving everyone a free ride (my latent conservatism
), but making an outcome criminal clearly isn't working and I wanted to hold some feet to the fire.
BTW, 'I don't know' is a perfectly acceptable answer, so long as it's followed with 'but I'm open to all potential solutions'. But as you said, what we're doing isn't gettin' the job done.