“No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: “But what would you replace it with?” When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?”
“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else’s opinion.”
“Mystical references to “society” and its programs to “help” may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.”
“The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.”
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
“One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.”
“What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race.”
“The assumption that spending more of the taxpayers’ money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family—which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions—began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to help.”
“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else’s opinion.”
“Mystical references to “society” and its programs to “help” may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.”
“The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.”
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
“One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.”
“What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race.”
“The assumption that spending more of the taxpayers’ money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family—which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions—began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to help.”
"Boy, was that a wrong mistake" - Yogi Berra
ReplyDeleteDr. Sowell is one wise fellow-- I absolutely love him.
ReplyDeleteHe makes more sense than any 10 other people I know, and has such a good way of making his point..
Another one of my favorites is Dr. Walter Williams.
Maybe the thing that makes these guys so spot-on is the fact that they're able to analyze the inner workings of life as a black person from the framework of a Ph D in economics..
Whatever it is, they sure get it right. I hope some of these Hopey-Changey folk are paying attention.
Very true. If we paid the "decision Makers" a direct average income/ benefit package that their constituency receives, then we would have accountability.
ReplyDeleteBut we pay them like they're royalty.
So how do they act as a result?
right on thomas sowell......
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