Posted on 09/15/2009 7:54:00 AM PDT by jazusamo
Sowell is always a pleasure to read.
I feel that I should print off copies of this and leave them everywhere. Break rooms, waiting rooms at the doctor and the dentist offices.
Truly a great column.
The summary of socialism:
“Today we are living in a time when the President of the United States is telling us that he is going to help us take that other dog’s bone away”
Thomas for president!
Right again, Mr. Sowell. Too bad the proper people won’t listen.
And go ahead and drop your bone in the water, in hopes that you can get somebody else’s bigger bone.
So he snapped at the other dog, which really was he.
That shows how stupid a greedy dog can be.
And the meat that he had done sank right out of reach,
And this little story a lesson should teach:
Don't be greedy, don't be greedy,
Or you may lose what you have and need.
Don't be greedy, don't be greedy,
Or you may lose all through your greed.
I email Dr Sowell’s columns to my two teen aged grandkids, it’s a great learning tool because what they don’t understand they’ll discuss with their parents. I look forward to the younger ones getting old enough to do the same.
That’s what I’m doing.
Yes, that makes Pelosi/Reid, et al, idiots (or bottom dwellers).
Sounds like there could be a Desperate Houswives episode here.
What a guy...absolute common sense and truth.
wwowhoooo ... thank you. New reading material tht is guaranteed to be worth my time.
I encourage you to do it. I sometimes print off columns and leave them in our break room at work.
I love Thomas Sowell. I have read several of his books, and would particularly recommend “Conquests And Cultures: An International History” and “Race And Culture: A World View,” although any one of his books is chock full of insight and information. I think he would make a fantastic president, but of course, none of here at FreeRepublic would vote for him, because we are all bible-thumping, redneck racists.
>>>What did we do, back during the years when most Americans had no medical insurance? I did what most people did. I depended on a “single payer”— myself. <<<
Great line! Sowell is brilliant. Such eloquent common sense.
Sowell’s version of “single payer” undoubtedly kept medical costs way down. If YOU are the “single payer”, (or at least paying a significant percentage along with your insurance company) YOU will be the gatekeeper of your own medical costs. You will not allow doctors to practice defensive medicine on YOUR dime.
When the insurance company (or the government) pays everything, the patient has no incentive to keep costs down.
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