“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.”
Thomas Sowell
“No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk. What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it.”
Thomas Sowell
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”
Thomas Sowell
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
Thomas Sowell
Huge fan of Thomas Sowell. He often rails against the perfect stupidity of progressive intellectuals, and I love every second of it.
In light of Mr. Sowell’s anti-intellectual bent, I offer up another quote from Eric Hoffer:
“The intellectual knows with every fiber of his being that all men are not created equal, and there are few things that he cares for less than class society. No matter how genuine the intellectual’s altruism, he regards the common man as a means.
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual’s sense of worth as an automated economy is a threat to the worker’s sense of worth. Any social order…which can function well with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.”
The One thing about Thomas Sowell is; when he fires, he hits the mark every time! The man is the reincarnation of Thomas Jefferson. And a little bit of Patrick Henry & Alexander Hamilton.