The 'Fairness' Fraud (Thomas Sowell)

Creators Syndicate ^ | February 21, 2012 | Thomas Sowell

[FourPeas]

In my house ‘fair’ is known as The F-Word.

[jazusamo]

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[FrankR]

Bob Beckel is one of my "change the channel" queues on FOX News.

He is joined in that title with:

Geraldo Rivera
Juan Williams
Ann Coulter
Alan Combs
Most any liberal democrat.

[apillar]

Bob Beckel and the rest of the liberal crew seemed to have never learned what most of us learned in Kindergarten. Life is not “fair”.

[jazusamo]

I hear you and agree on all of them.

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[Doctor 2Brains]

Your list makes watching FOX a rather rare event, yes? :)

My change the channel guy is Hannity. Not because of him, per se, but because of the endless parade of American-hating, sub-human filth that he puts in front of the camera and then yuks it up with.

[Williams]

He’s brilliant.

Saw DeeDee Meyers on TV this weekend. She said Obama’s campaign is that many people believe there is no good reason wealthy people make so much more, that they are not really any more intelligent, that it’s because the system is “rigged” against some people and the wealthy are using “gimmicks” to get rich.

I wanted someone to yell at her for being a damn communist and challenge every sylable of the nonsense she was spouting.

I don’t see rich people as “superior” however does she honestly think most CEO’s are not smarter than the average guy loitering on the street?

We allow liberals to sooo BS us. It is not “fair” for a non working non contributing person to have lots of kids, take drugs, commit crimes, get supported by working people - and then dare to point to income disparities!

[upchuck]

Life is not “fair”.
Get used to it.

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for the Dr. Sowell ping jaz. Always a quality read that makes my day.

[Williams]

A person doesn’t work (on the books, anyway) but gets welfare, food stamps, tax credits, free Section 8 housing, cell phones, sells drugs, etc. Is it “fair” that this person is treated as having no “income” when comparing statistics, considering they don’t work yet they are provided with tons of stuff?

[Fair Paul]

Oh, they fully realize it. Employing class warfare is one of the weapons in the War on Poverty. Without it, the parasite can no longer feed off its host.

[jazusamo]

Well said.

The vast majority of well to do and successful people are that way because they worked their rear ends off to get where they are.

The complainers for the most part are lazy bums willing to live off others success. I have Zer0 sympathy for them and him that resides in the WH.

[Hoffer Rand]

My daughter’s AP U.S. History teacher told his students, “Fair is a place where pigs compete for ribbons.” Daughter and I had a lot of respect for that man.

[MrB]

The communists at the top milk the middle class worker like a farmer milks a cow. The communists take all the milk, skim the cream for themselves, and give a little of the milk to the underclass to buy their continued support.

[GlockThe Vote]

Thomas Sowell is one of my intellectual heros.

[Chgogal]

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a quick witted conservative pundit who would wisecrack, “It’s obvious that you didn’t pass Kindergarten. Most kids learn life aint fair and becomes even more unfair when you allow The DC Mafia to launder $3.8 Trillion of tax payer’s money year in and year out.”?

[Chgogal]

Where does she go to school? I will recommend the school highly.

[Vigilanteman]

“Fair is a place where pigs compete for ribbons.”

Good one. I had a high school civics teacher who said this about straw polls: 'The reason they call them straw polls is because straw is what livestock sh*t in. And they both need straw to catch it.'