Quote of the day – from Thomas Sowell

Spot on, as always:

“Do people understand that the world toward which the Obama administration is leading us is a world where individuals’ economic well-being is no longer determined by how much their goods and services are valued by those who pay for them, but by politicians in Washington? The counterproductive economic consequences of this are dwarfed by the harm done by making us all dependents and supplicants of “public servants” who become in reality public masters.”

Read more random thoughts by Mr. Sowell here.

Sowell’s extensive bibliography can be found here. I highly recommend Vision of the Anointed as a must-have in any conservative’s library. The man is just brilliant.

Watch, listen, and see for yourself:

5 Responses to "Quote of the day – from Thomas Sowell"

Tom the Redhunter says:

September 28, 2010 at 8:58 pm

““Do people understand that the world toward which the Obama administration is leading us is a world where individuals’ economic well-being is no longer determined by how much their goods and services are valued by those who pay for them, but by politicians in Washington?”

Actually yes they probably do understand that, but they think it’s a good thing. Yet another reason to volunteer your time to help your local GOP candidate.
Carlos says:

September 28, 2010 at 10:53 pm

I consider myself fairly well read, and Sowell is (IMHO) the most brilliant social commentator today.

As far as readability goes, even with a relatively dry subject, I would put him on the same plain as Asimov.

For me, that’s saying a lot.
The Silent Majority says:

September 29, 2010 at 4:07 am

Sowell has nailed it. I agree with Tom the Redhunter as well. I think our population has been dumbed down to the point where they honestly can’t see the harm in such an arrangement. We have got to bring a sense of responsibility back to this country before it really is too late.
Kate says:

September 29, 2010 at 7:05 am

A brilliant man whose voice needs to be heard by more people. He has cogent and valid points to make that are based on fact and reality.

I really loved the point he made about how Obama has surrounded himself with “highly educated” people….and the comparison that FDR did the same…but the outcome is the same. They can make policy and then make up valid rationalizations of why that policy is failing!

Another point of reasoning I thought was point on is the basis on which people vote being that of emotion, not reality. We saw that with the election of Obama where the media did all it could to prevent an honest evaluation of who Obama was, as a person and his basic consistently socialist political viewpoints.

Double digit inflation did not present itself after the stock market crash of 1929 until the New Deal was adopted….and stayed there no matter how many executive orders were signed and implemented…sound familiar?
Zippy says:

September 30, 2010 at 9:49 am

He said it all when he said “People vote on what they believe, not on what the facts are.”

Will definitely read what he has to say.

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