Posted on 11/17/2008 6:16:25 PM PST by jazusamo
Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in a world where there were no prices?
If you happened to want a Rolex or a Rolls-Royce, you could just go get one— or two if you wanted— and not have to worry about ugly little things like price tags.
There is such a world. It is the world of political rhetoric. No wonder so many people are attracted to that world. It would be a great place to live.
After Arthur Goldberg had served on the Supreme Court, he lamented that more of society's problems could not be dealt with as that court dealt with them— by reaching a decision and then declaring, "It is so ordered."
Politics offers something similar. Theoretically, political decisions are limited by budgets. But for many experienced politicians, that limit is mostly theoretical.
Government budgets, after all, are only projections of what is supposed to happen, not a hard and fast record of what has in fact happened. And seldom will the public or the media do anything so mean-spirited as go back and compare what the budget said would happen with what actually happened.
Moreover, politicians can put certain large expenditures "off budget" for any number of noble-sounding reasons. And if you have long experience in using political rhetoric, nothing is easier than coming up with noble-sounding reasons.
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“Wouldn’t it be wonderful to live in a world where there were no prices?”
Barack Obama?
Too long to be my new tag line, so I will keep the old...
we can use that every time he gets his hand in your pocket..
or maybe
O.I.N.K.
obama invents new knowledge
you know brilliant stuff like the tire inflation thing...
Yours is a good one but Dr. Sowell’s can be shortened. :)
Ohbombie is working on it ...
free for others and giving YOU get the bill.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
Aye. Imagine the water-boy elevated to head coach in one day.
The sure wager is the Main Stream Media making jackasses out of themselves trying to cover-up the poor economic numbers and the let's-feel-good foreign policies.
I wonder if the RNC will be savvy enough to discredit the MSM once and for all. Alas, bet on the stupid party remaining dumb - easy win.
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Well, he didn't take my advice when I told him that 20 years ago (seriously), so I can't trust his judgment.
As Dr. Sowell's book "Basic Economics" could have told us, without prices, there's basically no such thing as economics.
>> where they can play Santa Claus without even the cost of buying a costume
Santa Clausky doesn’t dress in red.
I've enjoyed Thomas Sowell's columns for decades. In fact, he's one of the reasons I turned away from the dark side and embraced conservatism.
Having said that, I'm having a great deal of difficulty accepting at face value the pronouncements of any black intellectual, following Colin Powell's endorsement of The One and even Condi Rice going wobbly. I was happy to ascribe to Dr. King's maxim that people should be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. (How did that work out for you, Dr. King?) Thanks to Zerobama and Rev. Wright, that's not possible for me anymore.
Given that 95% of blacks voted their skin color, I now hold them all suspect. Michael Steele and Thomas Sowell included.
Anyone else feeling this way?
Anyone else feeling this way?
Absolutely not and here's some reading for.
Thomas Sowell columns re Obama
Ego and Mouth
A Perfect Storm
Taxing Times
Obama and the Law
Obama and “The Left”
Polls and Pols
Believers in Obama
Negative Advertising
The Real Obama: Part IV
The Real Obama: Part III
The Real Obama: Part II
The Real Obama
Do Facts Matter?
Idols of Crowds
Changes in Politics
Whose “Special Interests”?
The Galbraith Effect
…As Well As Several Other Issues
Are Facts Obsolete?
Conservatives for Obama?
Cocky Ignorance
Obama and McCain
Irrelevant Apologies
Success Built on Work Ethic
An Old Newness
A Living Lie
Obama’s Speech
Race and Politics
Non-Judgmental Nonsense
Should have been:
Absolutely not and here’s some reading for you.
Let's not become like the libs and look at people as groups. Dr Thomas Sowell is a living genius and I would put my money on him to stay true to his beliefs over most people out there. Unless he proves otherwise by his actions I am going to remain a huge fan and student.
But I don’t want a rolex. I just want free gas, no mortgage, and free health care. What’s so wrong about that?
No.
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