Merely to exist is to have an open-ended right to claim goods and services paid for by other people's efforts?

Supply and demand works for pretty much everything.

A car dealer makes a mint from Obama's gaffes.

The NSF was chartered to fund basic scientific research, it was not chartered to extend affirmative action to the sciences.

For the stated purpose of reviving our economy, this is nothing more than an exercise in silliness.

Competition keeps the NBS functioning effectively just as competition would help the public schools.

Unless we tell our politicians to ignore Al Gore's scam, we'll all freeze in the dark.

How come all the environmentalists keep proposing things people don't want to do? Real solutions nedn't require deprivation.

It is claimed that this boat runs on biodiesel made form the crew's fat and that it is carbon-neutral. But how is that calculated?

Poor people often skimp on food so that they will have enough money for things they consider valuable.