Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
THOMAS SOWELLThe welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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.
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