Posted on 03/09/2010 5:29:55 PM PST by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has, if you called the tail a leg? When the audience said “five,” Lincoln corrected them, saying that the answer was four. “The fact that you call a tail a leg does not make it a leg.”
That same principle applies today. The fact that politicians call something a “stimulus” does not make it a stimulus. The fact that they call something a “jobs bill” does not mean there will be more jobs.
— Thomas Sowell
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This man is right up there with Krauthammer as far as I’m concerned. He always hits the nail on the head.
The first black President should have been Thomas Sowell!!!
You are correct!!!
Sowell is great!!
I totally agree. This is a true conservative, a Reagan conservative if you will.
Call an unborn baby a "fetus." Voila! An ignorant society accepts destroying it in the name of a new innovation on the Constitution called "a woman's right to choose."
Call a massive government takeover of companies "bailouts," and Americans surrender their free enterprise system.
Call the largest power grab "health care reform" and Americans believe it's really about "health care" that they might allow the government to take over 1/6 of their economy.
Call the largest single spending spree in the history of the Republic "stimulus," and Americans surrender their posterity to tyranny.
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