Posted on 12/16/2008 7:14:54 PM PST by jazusamo
How can you post things by anyone as heartless as Thomas Sowell?</sarcasm>
But, but I can’t be out of money, I have lots of checks left.
Where’s all the protectionist and market-hating FReepers at?
Lets hope someone in the Democratic Party realizes this, since they are in charge.
Well said, Tom! We used to call that “Hiding one’s head in the sand, ostrich style) though.
The real tragedy is that labor is being equated to stockholders. labor has no stake and no entitlement in the business. Labor has taken the profits that belong to stock holders.
Labor must be beaten in to submission and severely bloodied in the process. The BIG LABOR movement must be killed.
I am printing this out to read to my kids tonight.
Isn’t it just terrible? Lack of PC must be contagious. :)
Agreed...For the most part labor has become nothing more than a fundraising movement to promote an agenda that is contrary to the well being of our country and American values.
Oh, bravo!
These people have done and do nothing but demonstrate the communist dream in reality: “we want more stuff for doing nothing”.
This has always been a socialist principle, and unions have always - ALWAYS - been based on that principle. Complete with thugs to bully people.
When I read a Clarence Thomas opinion or a Thomas Sowell editorial or an Economics essay from Walter Williams or an Oped from Michael Steele, I don’t seem to be picking up any colors. Do you? ... I’m sure the fool to whom you referred is blinded by the colors he/she imagines there. Sadly, the phenomenon is not limited to white people blinded by racial prejudices, it is found int he black community as well. Perhaps that is one small reason why so many of us charish the work of men like Thomas, Sowell, Williams, and Steele ... they don’t have racial bias coloring their world-views because they have done the work to see the real issues confronting us all. The stuff of ‘fellow Americans’, that.
This column was printed in our local paper this morning, and I can just see some of the letters of protest in future editions about it, from clueless dimlibs.
Sowell should have been our first black president, not Ubama.
“Sowell should have been our first black president... “
Amen. Had that been the case, the Black community would have then had a real reason to be proud, and our country would have had a chance to rise.
“The real tragedy is that labor is being equated to stockholders. labor has no stake and no entitlement in the business. Labor has taken the profits that belong to stock holders. Labor must be beaten in to submission and severely bloodied in the process. The BIG LABOR movement must be killed.”
I think if I had a chance to ask Dr. Sowell a question, it would be this: If the situation were such that GM were able to pay only tiny wages that kept their workers in dire, Dickensian poverty, while raking in huge profits for the stockholders, what if anything would it be appropriate to do, and who should do it?
“I couldn’t be happier than if they were based on real grades. (Of course, that last line is idiomatic, so it doesn’t come across well in print...”
I’ve always thought it was just typically uneducated hollyweird slugs screwing up the language again.
Idiotic, not idiomatic, eh? :-)
Well, of course, a person as genteel, cultured, and just downright sweet as myself would never refer to those loathsome, despicable, vile perverts as “idiotic.”
That would be unkind.
heh
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