Wednesday, April 23, 2014

THOUGHTS FROM THOMAS SOWELL:
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
'What works' is called tradition.
I think this man [Obama] really does believe he can change the world, and people like that are infinitely more dangerous than mere crooked politicians.
Obama is both a 'believer' and crooked.
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medications somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
That's because someone else is writing the check with money stolen from their wallet.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
With cell phones and cell phone videos, that's slowly coming to an end.
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
I don't go back in time far enough to have been a radical, but 30 years ago I was indeed a liberal -- and stupid.
I have never understood why is is "greed" to want to keep the money you've earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
By that definition, I am and always have been 'greedy'.
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
Unless you're a progressive, then whining is not a right, it's an obligation.
One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
Assuming we want to be 'graced' with their presence.

Taken from my email.

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