Posted on 07/20/2009 9:00:21 PM PDT by jazusamo
Thanks for the ping jaz.
Thanks for posting this...Mr. Sowell has an unparalleled ability to bring clarity to convoluted issues like sunlight through a fog!
What a mind...
Your absolutely right. Sowell could take any of Obama's half hour diatribes and totally destroy it in five or six well chosen sentences.
I suppose we need him in academia - but man, I'd like to cast a vote for him some how, some way.
Once again, Dr. Sowell has explained the problem clearly. He never fails to provide succinct arguments that I regularly steal when talking with my (few) liberal acquaintences. He is a national treasure.
Yes he has and he does it consistently. It truly requires a brilliant mind to explain difficult issues with such ease.
Why can’t we get Sowell to face Obama somehow? Why don’t we ever ever ever have anyone at press conferences to challenge this Marxist bastard. Sowell is so on the money as he ALWAYS is
I also like Manning's take....why do 280 million Americans have to give up their health care so that 42 million can get some?
You know that is where this is all headed. Cheap, lousy government care will price the good care out of the market (China care?). Government masters are using market principles to put us all under their knife.
China care with lead chips in it, who needs it?
I’m afraid you’re right, it is headed there. We’ll eventually end up just like Canada and Britain if Zer0 and the Rats get their foot in the door with this.
Oh My God.
There are facts about the massive government-run medical programs already in existence in the United States Medicare, Medicaid and veterans' hospitals as well as government-run medical systems in other countries.. . . We are like someone being rushed by a used car dealer to sign on the dotted line. But getting stuck with a car that is a lemon is nothing compared to signing away your right to decide what medical care you or your loved ones will get in life and death situations.
When Sowell is on his game . . .And it is so seldom that he is not. And this is not such an occasion.
I wonder if there's a way of getting a poster with Sowell's photo on it . . .
He’s on his game with this one...
He’d serve best as a regular guest on a national radio show.
The show host would have to be a good interviewer, and be able to ask appropriate questions to bring out Sowell’s wisdom on the topics of the day, disseminated to a large, a very large audience.
“As for those uninsured Americans we keep hearing about, there is remarkably little interest in why they don’t have insurance. It cannot be poverty, for the poor can automatically get Medicaid. “
BUMP!
I read the other day that something like 85% of people with insurance are HAPPY with their coverage. And really; where are the dead and dying in the streets who are denied assistance? Not a one to be found, fer Pete’s Sake! 0bama doesn’t even have ANYONE who is being denied care to trott out for public appearances on this topic! (Well, unless you count those that are being starved to death, ala Terry Schaivo! Grrrrrrr!)
I know I am VERY happy with my current coverage. I have a very affordable policy through my employer (who demanded a rate reduction last your...and GOT it!) which covers myself (rarely used) my husband’s monthly meds and all of his pre-existing conditions.
Government will do NOTHING but SCREW THIS UP!
This reminds me of a joke... Why do husbands die before their wives? BECAUSE THEY WANT TO!
I'm surprised that Mr. Sowell didn't draw a bead on the most deliberate confusion of all: The confusion of "health insurance" with "health care"
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Especially when half those 42 million are not Americans, in this country illegally.
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