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Quote of the Day – The Government’s Role
It is amazing how many people think that the government’s role is to give them what they want by overriding what other people want. – Thomas Sowell
More Sowell food for thought.
This quote seems particularly appropriate given that the socialists of the Democrat Party, as exemplified by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, seem to be in full gear. The New Green Deal is one example: is Ocasio-Cortez’s assertion, that if we who fail to see global warming as a crisis fail to offer solutions that means she “is the boss.” (Oh lady. You and what army? Talk about playing with fire by people who do not know fire is hot.)
We know where giving people what they want by overriding what other people want ends? In the death camps of Nazi Germany, the GuLags of Soviet Russia, and the colectivos of Venezuela. And yet many people who think themselves the smartest person in the room insist of persisting in the stupidity of giving people what they want by overriding what other people want.
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Well they can’t have my stuff!
Amen to that!
Only the best food from that source.
Oh, I wish that was true, Susan, but if the Left takes the reins of government, plan on the State deciding whether or not your stuff is really yours (“you didn’t build that…”), and determining how much of that stuff you really need. They will do what justice requires, namely, that your stuff be given to others who don’t have your unfair advantages in life.
Long may we sup on his wisdom.
They can try.
We have permission to oppose them.
They’ll have to get past my Glock.
You go, girl!!
There is your mistake. It is not yours. It belongs to the state to appropriate as it seems fit.
That will only be a minor annoyance. You really planning to shoot police officers?
Words, written by old dead white men. Words we seldom do more than pay lip service too nowadays.
They’re not asking for your stuff. Just taking it.
True enough, but in Texas we do more than pay lip service. We believe in our tusks. Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.
If Thomas Sowell quotes were inserted into fortune cookies, we would no longer need public schools.
They would effectively counteract public schools.
Unfortunately Texas does not rule the country, DC does.
We’ve been a Republic before. Another national government tried to stop it, too.
Police officers? How quaint… In about two years, if guns are to be surrendered, drones will be the culprits attempting to disarm us.