Bite Sized Wisdom: Thomas Sowell

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take the people's money quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
-- Thomas Sowell, Jewish World Review, May 11th 1998

I love how and what this guy writes!! He’s got a great mind and is far more compassionate than the likes of Jesse Jackson’s ilk.
[...] Via SayAnythingBlog and their continuing Bite Sized Wisdom series, a nugget of wisdom from Thomas Sowell: The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take the people’s money quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly. [...]
Shame on him! If he’s going to be writing in the Jewish World Review, he’s got to remember to mention the rate charged to the people when the money is returned to them!
Did you forget the /sarcasm tag, MI?
Shame on him! If he’s going to be writing in the Jewish World Review, he’s got to remember to mention the rate charged to the people when the money is returned to them!
Hm, for some reason the /anti-semitism tags aren’t working . . .
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