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To: TimF who wrote (966114)	9/21/2016 10:14:30 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574744

More from Sowell - "The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. " "If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today." "One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized. " "What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away" "Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric." "Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities." "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. " "Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism. " "Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers" "I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." "When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear."