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To: Dale Baker who wrote (602)	6/9/2005 5:27:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 541604

I don't think oxymoron is the right term to describe the point you are trying to make but I won't quibble about it if you want to use it. OK, Sowell is going to tell me next how individuals are responsible for their own outcomes, right? Nope. He just wants to blame a different set of external barriers, namely: I think he is drawing a distinction between barriers and incentives. "No black need apply", or "We wouldn't consider someone with your poor 'breeding'" is a barrier. Giving someone money to support themselves is a negative incentive to them earning it themselves according to Sowell. I personally might say that it isn't directly a negative incentive but rather decreases the positive incentive but other than that distinction I agree with him. Not what I would call objective or free from agendas. What political commentator is free from agendas? Personally I respect both of them (or at least their writings and statements that I've encountered, I don't know too much about their personal lives and history). Tim

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