One more thread on BridgeWalker's pet peeves.
What is up with people spending my money for me? Here's just a few:
If you can afford a gun, you can afford a cell-phone.
If you can afford a gun, you can afford an NRA membership.
If you can afford a house, you can afford to get a decent lawnmower.
If you can afford a kid, you can afford <insert almost anything here, ranging from fancy organic foods to full-time babysitters, to whatever else someone else think I ought to spend my money on>.
This is just nuts. Since when is what I can or cannot afford or will or won't spend my money on, up for public debate. I mean, I'm cool with the whole "I think you should do x." Especially with things like NRA membership or similar things that have a wide-ranging effect and are something of a social obligation. But someone else bringing my budget into it seems pretty crass and rude.
(No, this isn't about me, it's just in teh first person because it reads better that way.)
