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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Bite Sized Wisdom: Thomas Sowell

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

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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.

Seth Yantiss on September 21, 2005 at 09:10 am
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[...] 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. [...]

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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?

Seth Yantiss on September 21, 2005 at 11:10 am
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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!

modern instances on September 21, 2005 at 11:10 am
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Hm, for some reason the /anti-semitism tags aren’t working . . .

modern instances on September 21, 2005 at 12:09 pm
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[...] Today history records the brilliance of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The Marshall Plan helped Europe recover. And Ronald Reagan’s tough line at Reykjavik — according to the Soviets, anyway — was the beginning of the end of the Cold War. In thinking about Afghanistan and Iraq, we should ask what history will say.And Rob at SayAnything has this 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.Jed at Boots and Sabers got into the March of the Penquins theme lately with this post and this update. [...]

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