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The Rush to Wait (Thomas Sowell)
Townhall.com ^ | February 17, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 02/17/2009 5:37:11 PM PST by jazusamo

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To: DustyMoment

“This isn’t over by a long shot. IMO, the Obamanites will turn a deaf ear when the Dems blame everything on the ‘Pubbies because they’ll look at the makeup of the Congress and the WH and see them filled with Democrats. The Obamoron over-promised and will under-deliver. The idiot class that believes that Obama will pay their mortgage, buy their gas and give them a government issued credit card worth $3,000 or $6,000 expect him to deliver and, when he doesn’t, it won’t be pretty.”

Au contraire. See my comment about big cities.


21 posted on 02/17/2009 7:37:27 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: jazusamo

Man, I wish he had run for President a few years ago when he was younger. The man is a genius.


22 posted on 02/17/2009 7:41:09 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: jazusamo

Outrageous, despicable, incompetent action by the senate and congress to push this horrendous spending bill w/o even reading it and rushing it through so hastily. If this isn’t a pitchfork moment against the vermin in DC then what is?


23 posted on 02/17/2009 7:45:23 PM PST by tflabo
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To: Richard Kimball

I also believe him to be a genius and an honest man. Perhaps being honest is why he didn’t want to enter into politics as well as not wanting to deal with politicians.


24 posted on 02/17/2009 7:49:38 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: tflabo

I have to agree with all your points.


25 posted on 02/17/2009 7:52:22 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

bump for later - night all


26 posted on 02/17/2009 8:27:54 PM PST by GOPJ (The closer global warming is exposed as hoax, the more hysterical it's proponents become...)
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To: jazusamo

Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

We remember FDR and know more about his failed policies today than economists, pols, and the people knew in the 1930s. We will NOT allow B.O. to repeat them (ditto for the lessons of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and every other marxist/socialist).


27 posted on 02/17/2009 8:50:33 PM PST by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: jazusamo; Richard Kimball

This is why we need a return to smoke filled rooms. Anyone who desires higher office enough to seek it is unfit to serve.


28 posted on 02/17/2009 8:54:45 PM PST by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: jazusamo

I ususally agree with Prof. Sowell.
but this pollyannish nonsense has to stop.
He is far to optimistic and we are in a lot more trouble than most can imagine.


29 posted on 02/17/2009 9:08:20 PM PST by genghis
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To: Entrepreneur

That’s a very good point, it has to be better than what’s going on now.


30 posted on 02/17/2009 9:12:03 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo
As usual, Dr. Sowell is correct. But Lew Rockwell posted an article some months ago that has an even better explanation. It's Cargo Cult Government. These people have no clue what they are doing. They go through the motions because they have seen others go through similar motions, and they expect good results.

I won't try to describe what a Cargo Cult is, but follow the link for an explanation. What a hoot! Right up until you realize that it is a plausible explanation for the behavior of our government -- and governments the world over.

31 posted on 02/17/2009 9:14:26 PM PST by Lafayette (You would think that Patrick Henry said, "Give me DEMOCRACY or give me death!")
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Ok, so blacks vote Democrat, so waht? We know that, have known that and accept it. There are approximately 20% swing voters who go either way, depending on which way the wind is blowing. That's a lot!!

The Obamoron only won by about 10%. By late summer, more than 10% of those swing voters will begin to recognize how fully the DBM, their naivete and the Obamoron pulled the wool over their eyes.

They will notice that the economy isn't getting better, they still can't get a job, Obama hasn't paid their mortgage or put gas in their car and money is extremely tight. There is a LOT going on right now that exceeds just trhe economy. Look at his corrupt cabinet full of tax cheats, and Clinton retreads. Look at the fact that the moonbat wing expected him to announce the troop withdrawal from Iraq by 12:20 on 1/20/09. These things have not come to pass. In the meantime, his first interview as president was with Al-Arabiya and his first foreign phone call was with the head of Hamas. He has agreed to ship aircraft weapons parts to Syria under the radar and has invited thousands of Palestinians to re-settle in the US at OUR expense. I think we have the makings of a political "perfect storm" in the making, and this is just the stuff we know about. Not to mention, Debbie Stabenow wanting to re-introduce the "Fairness Doctrine" so that her loser liberal husband might actually be able to make some money pushing leftist radio on us (by federal law) AND they want to shut down conservative internet websites like FReepublic. So let's not surrender before the fight has really begun!!

32 posted on 02/17/2009 10:49:30 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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"FDR also inspired the will to believe-- and he also had Herbert Hoover on whom to blame all the country's troubles.

It may seem strange, to those who never lived through those times, that someone could be President of the United States for eight straight years and nevertheless escape responsibility for mass unemployment by blaming his long-departed predecessor. But we may yet see a re-run of that scenario in our own time."

The fact that people today are spoiled and don't have the kind of patience that people had way back then, could, for once, work to our favor, and thus history won't repeat itself in its entirety. THAT is my hope.

33 posted on 02/17/2009 11:40:11 PM PST by TAdams8591 (When Obama FAILS, America SUCCEEDS.)
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LOL, OK, OK. I’m not surrendering, I’m just cynical.

You could be right - the “swing” could move things our way again. However, many of those subjects at best require the Dems to simply “not vote” as opposed to voting for the R. Which may be good enough, but who knows?

My point was I’ve seen so many people stuck in their Dem mode and they don’t care about details; it’s just about “who’s going to give me money for nothing” - Dem. Funny how we hear how “open-minded” Dems are, when in fact they are not the source of 3rd Parties, generally. I myself voted Perot the 1st time, being suspicious of Bush. I’ve voted for some good Dems (very few, but still...). Nope, Dems are lock-step.


34 posted on 02/18/2009 5:30:09 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Richard Kimball

I want a T-shirt with Sowell on it - like Obambi’s - that says “Let’s vote for a REAL black man”.


35 posted on 02/18/2009 5:34:34 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: jazusamo

Markets did fail- if you mean that it failed to guarantee that businesses would make a profit regardless of the good or service they offer or the practices that they do.


36 posted on 02/18/2009 5:56:38 AM PST by dbz77
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I’ve seen so many people stuck in their Dem mode and they don’t care about details; it’s just about “who’s going to give me money for nothing”

All valid points although, with Dems, it is often less about getting "money for nothing" (and the chicks for free!), and more about sports. Most Dem voters next squat point zip about politics, all they know is that their team either won and beat the Republicans or they didn't. For them, politics is another Superbowl competition; it isn't about policy or political philosophy. It's about beating Republicans that a teacher in school told them they should hate. The average Dem voter knows so little about politics that when they walk into a voting booth, 95% have no clue what it's about, they just know they are supposed to be against the Republicans because the DBM and some Hollyweird airhead told them they should be against these people.

Which brings us back to my original point. When they see that the Obamoron hasn't solved all the ills in their lives and hasn't given them free rent, free gas, a free iPod and an opportunity to appear on American Idol, they are going to turn on him. It's coming and I think that the timeframe is summer, probably late summer.

37 posted on 02/18/2009 4:46:25 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: jazusamo

three weeks later and more evidence accumulating that he ‘s as incompetent as predicted, no, more so.


38 posted on 03/08/2009 3:23:27 AM PDT by gusopol3
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And he’ll get worse, by his own admission he’s already tired!


39 posted on 03/08/2009 10:28:07 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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