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Who are these people on the "left" persons on the "radical right" keep referring to? I wonder. They never seem to be identified - those dangerous persons on the "left."
If someone wants to examine the two principal political parties and "central planning" they'll find an avalanche of such ideas in the platform of the GOP and in the various legislative proposals offered by persons affiliated with that party. There maybe some people associated with the Democratic Party who offer some such suggestions, but they are so greatly over-shadowed by the control freaks in the GOP and the radical right that it's an apples-to-oranges comparison.
When you learn to stop conflating political parties and political ideologies, then you can actually progress toward understanding what's going on.
Yes, Sowell is an individual who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, a conservative libertarian think tank. Try to keep up.
No, it is YOU who needs to keep up. Thomas Sowell is NOT the name of a "think tank". Thomas Sowell is a person. Thomas Sowell wrote the column, it is not a consensus document produced by a think tank.
No, it's when the government tells the individual what options he must have on that Focus, mandates that the company have a "corporate miles per gallon" average, must have certain "crash" standards, must be re crash-tested millions of dollars worth for each transmission and motor change (even though it has no material effect). When it pays Ford millions of dollars to create vehicles that have no significant market.
It's when the government tells the citizen he must buy insurance until the day he dies, what that insurance must include, how much it must pay for, and what the insurance company must spend its money on.
It's when the federal government tells the citizen what size of toilet tank he must have.
It's when the federal government chooses which software a doctor must use to keep his records and that patient information must be transmitted to the federal government to determine if the doctor is correct in his actions. When committees in Washington DC decide what a medical procedure is "worth" in terms of money ,and whether or not it is 'worth' doing.
Actually, we're absolutely correct, and you haven't the faintest idea what liberty is, what central planning is, or that you're obsessed with it.
So you are upset that cars are required to have airbags?
People, people! You cannot argue or reason with with nor change the minds of the hard-core right or entrenched far left. They know best and can't be wrong.
Uhhhh... Because what he's saying is true. Duhhhh. Are you having difficulty understanding that concept, or ????
How do you know what he is saying is true and factual? Was their a disclaimer to the article that said everything you about to read is true and factual.
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Apparently Sowell is the way he is because he believes we should accept the world the way it is and not try to improve it. Thank goodness people like the founders, Edison, the Wright brothers, Ford, Marconi, and many, many others didn't share his vison of not trying to change the world.
Apparently Sowell is the way he is because he believes we should accept the world the way it is and not try to improve it. Thank goodness people like the founders, Edison, the Wright brothers, Ford, Marconi, and many, many others didn't share his vison of not trying to change the world.
No - that is not what Sowell believes. He writes frequently on what is wrong in the world and does not say it is acceptable. He does not agree with the left that a more active and intrusive government is the way to solve most of these problems.
So you are upset that cars are required to have airbags?
Why should they be required?
Shouldn't that be my choice, whether to buy them or not?
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