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.
THOMAS SOWELLI have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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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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