Posted on 02/13/2012 9:20:06 AM PST by jazusamo
God bless this special, brilliant man. He’s one of hero patriots.
Amen! He made simply in a few words progressivism and Obama what would take many writers pages to make clear.
With one added note, the brilliance of those in and out of the DNC who marketed him to the public knowing that he could never be impeached for what ever reason because of the color of his skin. This burning tire around the neck of anyone who chooses to be labeled a racist and a bigot against the first black president of the United States is enourmously debilitating allowing him to run buckshot over the law of the land with no consequence. Many employers suffer this on a smaller scale. We all have come in contact at our job where there is a worker who the employer cannot remove because of his affirmative action affiliation.
OK.... I say, let’s not mince words anymore. Let’s just call them what they in fact ARE..’Anti-American”
Exactly so, and whereas Glenn Beck is a loon and sounds like one, Dr Sowell “teaches” and informs concisely.
Were he or Walter Williams to run, I’d vote for them in a heartbeat. They are smart and self accomplished...and did it despite the prejudices that ruled during their childhood.
I hate Obama because he is a vapid dork quota baby undeserving of even receiving welfare.
Well said and true! I believe this latest caper of his on religion will be his downfall, hopefully so anyway.
A bump for the brilliant Dr. Sowell; the king of succinctness.
Good one. Thanks for the ping jaz.
“He made simply in a few words progressivism and Obama what would take many writers pages to make clear.”
The progressives use big words, and lots of them, to obscure their agenda.
They robbed the old-money rich of their status and power.
Socialism can best be understood as a way for the old-money rich, whose biggest assets are their connections to the political class, to use government to prevent the rise of any competition.
And yet this is exactly why his supporters love him. He represents their attitudes perfectly. His supporters for the most part (other than his campaign contributors who get massive payoffs with taxpayer funds - Soylandra) are losers and parasites who are envious of the achievers, but too lazy and/or too stupid to achieve anything by themselves. They are literally too lazy to steal, but they have the government to do it for them. These people love 0 and want him for a second term. What has to be defeated in the fall isn't 0 as much as it is his hordes of worthless moochers who vote for him and vote for his hand in our pockets.
Every word of this essay is dripping with brilliance.
Absolutely.
Our progressive income tax is designed to prevent the working and innovative people from accumulating the wealth at the levels that the old-money rich have.
Lobbyist and the mechanics of crony capitalism via government regulations and sweetheart deals are designed so that innovative small businesses cannot compete fairly against the entrenched business interests.
Farming regulations (recently keeping kids off tractors) are designed to cripple the small family farms in favor of the large factory farming operations that give billions to politicians.
Government power has a vested interest in pursuing the interests of those who ‘vested’ into the system.
EXACTLY RIGHT!!!
The Left often accuses the Right of being 'simplistic'. That's because the truth is often simple, and pretty linear to boot.
Liberal thought is always convoluted and dense, and frankly makes no sense most of the time because they want to obscure and bury the half-truths, the leaps in logic, and the outright lies of their thought processes
They want to do this not just to confuse you, but to enable themselves to believe the BS that they spout. And THAT'S the truth.
What you state is true; except that there is no conspiracy to achieve a totalitarian end.
The state cannot help itself; it always acts so as to dissolve natural human society, the better to extend its powers.
Divine Providence has endowed him with the gift of reason and the unique ability to articulate his understanding with clarity for our day.
There have been others in our day, including Dr. Leonard Read of the Foundation for Economic Education. As a matter of fact, rereading his classic, "Anything That's Peaceful," should be on the agenda of all of us who recognize the threats to liberty today.
On the topic of the President's so-called "compromise" last week, we must keep the focus on the fact that this is not about the Trojan Horses of "women's health" or "contraception."
It's not even limited to the principle of religious liberty or freedom of speech.
It is about an unconstitutional assumption of power over rights which "the People" withheld from the purview of the government they structured through their Constitution. If this arrogation of power to the Executive is allowed to stand in this case, then all of "the People's" rights are at risk.
Inasmuch as their Constitution allowed no power to infringe on any specified right in the First Amendment, then the person who assumes such a power also does not possess a power to "compromise," or "accomodate."
May I suggest that readers of this thread read Read's "Anything That's Peaceful" and share this wonderful and easy-to-read book with as many people as you can.
Not only does Read provide insight into the ideas of liberty versus those of tyranny (as in socialism), but his Chapter 5, entitled, "How Socialism Harms the Individual" is especially enlightening for any who may not see what is happening in America in its proper context, as pertains to the individuals involved.
In Chapter 5, under the heading "The Authoritarian," he begins by stating, "Of the threee classifications of persons involved in social leveling by compulsion, the authoritarian--the one who administers the taking and the giving--has been too little diagnosed." When you read it, you will see the nature of the man before us today. This section of Chapter 5 paints a portrait most Americans will recognize.
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