Theowl32
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Who is Thomas Sowell? Glad you asked.
Sowell worked a civil service job in Washington, DC, and attended night classes at Howard University, a historically black college. His high scores on the College Board exams and recommendations by two professors helped him gain admission to Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.He earned a Master's degree from Columbia University the following year.
Sowell received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968. His dissertation was titled "Say's Law and the General Glut Controversy".Sowell had initially chosen Columbia University to study under George Stigler, who would later receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. When he learned that Stigler had moved to the University of Chicago, he followed him there.
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I doubt liberals could read that or care. He grew up from 10 to his teens in Harlem....
Here are his quotes:
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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 consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
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Sowell worked a civil service job in Washington, DC, and attended night classes at Howard University, a historically black college. His high scores on the College Board exams and recommendations by two professors helped him gain admission to Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.He earned a Master's degree from Columbia University the following year.
Sowell received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968. His dissertation was titled "Say's Law and the General Glut Controversy".Sowell had initially chosen Columbia University to study under George Stigler, who would later receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. When he learned that Stigler had moved to the University of Chicago, he followed him there.
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I doubt liberals could read that or care. He grew up from 10 to his teens in Harlem....
Here are his quotes:
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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 consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
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Mod Note: Thread has been open for 3.5 days.. This should have been caught before -- but lines like the following are NOT welcome in OPosts anymore.., Theowl32 Closing to moderate. Will remove before thread re-opens..
Inflammatory last line now removed..
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