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Posted on 10/03/2006 8:27:43 AM PDT by Gordongekko909
FRmail me if you want on or off the Thomas Sowell Ping List.
Gyah! Two seconds slow. I'm still getting used to my trackball mouse...
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Thanks. That is a good article.
I agree with the ED part of the article but I don't like the thinly veiled attacks on the rich or the "greedy" corporations.
If people consider rich people and organizations that make big money evil, is it any wonder so few people are rich? Who wants to be evil?
Sowell is just plain old attacking socialism. He doesn't like government interference in the economy, no matter who's doing the lobbying. Believe me, this dude ain't no lib.
"Who wants to be evil?"
Well, if being wealthy and successful is evil, then slap me senseless and call me the devil!
No rational person disagrees with honest gain resulting from the production of wealth, however, using sheer financial clout to invest illegitimate powers in government in order to game the system is all too prevalent.
Please add me to the Doctor Sowell ping list. Also the Shelby Steele and Stanley Crouch ping list if they exist.
They always say tax the rich, but they forget to say to whom the money goes? To what "investment"? Hmmm, like corrupt gov cops, mafias and drug dealing losers, to name a few.
It's only a scheme to maintain and "grow" an evil army of losers.
Added to Sowell ping list! 130 pingees now. I don't know if the other two ping lists exist, though. If they do, I don't run them.
"Believe me, this dude ain't no lib."
No doubt. I do agree with his overall point. Mona Charen pointed out something similar in her book "Do-Gooders". If you haven't read it, check it out.
Yup. He is right on the money, as usual.
Upscale residents say that they have a right to protect "our community." But not even the rich own the whole community.
They own what they paid for -- their own individual property. But they get the government to collectivize the often vastly larger surrounding property, in order to keep the unwashed masses from settling near them and spoiling their views.
Is this a backhanded slap at Kennedy?
Yes...reading that book now. Only a chapter into it, but I like it already!
Eminent Domain and open space laws are socialism for the rich. Illuminating.
Obvious once it's pointed out to you, just like everything obvious.
Thank goodness for plain speaking and clear thinking. By which I mean, thank goodness for Thomas Sowell. He always explains things "so well."
A man who is absolutely unafraid of what others think of him. He is smart, informed, and courageous. Thank God for him and those like him. PC has never entered his thought process.
I love Thomas Sowell, who makes me proud to be his fellow American.
See if you can get this one in old 'Two Paddock's' local (Queenstown??) rag, why don'tcha, shaggs?
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