Maybe the best thing you can say about the current “Occupy” movements is that they have good intentions. But if this true, I would immediately recall Bernard of Clairvaux’s famous phrase “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.“ A much more precise description of the protesters might be to call them naive. In a [...]
Archive for the ‘Thomas Sowell’ Category
the 99 percent
Posted in Election 2012, Inequality, Obama, Politics, Thomas Sowell, Unemployment, USA on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
politicians
Posted in Milton Friedman, Politics, Quotes, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell on May 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Random collection of quotes on politicians: Ernest Benn: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. Groucho Marx: Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others. Dick Armey: Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, [...]
fair
Posted in Inequality, Politics, Thomas Sowell on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Just recently, Thomas Sowell published another article worth reading in the Jewish World Review. He discusses the issue of fairness: The Fairness Fraud High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations [...]
thomas sowell reader
Posted in Economics, Obama, Thomas Sowell, Uncommon Knowledge on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Referring to my previous post, it might be important to emphasize that this interview dates back no less than thirty years. However, Dr. Sowell has not changed much since then. Last year, he gave an interview to Uncommon Knowledge hosted by Peter Robinson: President Obama follows a one-step vision. He doesn’t care about what will be [...]
discrimination
Posted in Politics, Thomas Sowell on January 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Dr. Thomas Sowell and William F. Buckley discuss economic disparities in the American society: Even if you look at activities that are totally within their own control, which television programs to watch for instance, [you find huge disparities across the various subpopulations].
lesson of kodak
Posted in Economics, Technology, Thomas Sowell on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, the 131-year-old company Eastman Kodak was said to seek bankruptcy protection. This happened after Kodak had been the leading photographic company in the world for more than a hundred years. The company put photography on the map for millions of people and invented, for instance, the digital camera in 1975 – but never managed [...]
just words
Posted in Economics, Inequality, Politics, Thomas Sowell on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Thomas Sowell Reader on the powerful role of words in politics and the meaning of social justice: Is the person who has spent years in school goofing off, acting up or fighting, squandering the tens of thousands of dollars that the taxpayers have spent on his education supposed to end up with his income [...]
the big exception
Posted in Economics, Obama, Politics, Thomas Sowell on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In these days of Advent season when we usually think about what expensive stuff to buy for Christmas gifts, it might be a good idea to reconsider a simple fact: Both, across time and across countries, the majority of people have lived and are still living in desperate poverty without much freedom. While today the minimum income [...]
peanuts
Posted in Economics, Thomas Sowell on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dr. Thomas Sowell on ridiculous fines for high-paid athletes: With professional athletes earning megabucks incomes, it is a farce to punish their violations of rules with fines. When Serena Williams was fined $2,000 for misconduct during a tennis match, that was like fining you or me a nickel or a dime. Suspensions are something that [...]
we the people
Posted in Constitution, Politics, Thomas Sowell, USA on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day, Thomas Sowell posted some random thoughts. Among them, there was an interesting statement: Three little words — “We the people,” the opening words of the Constitution of the United States — are the biggest obstacle to achieving the political goals of the left. For that, they must move decisions away from “We [...]
