In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Once we realize that government doesn't work, we'll know that the only way to improve government is by reducing its size - by doing away with laws, by getting rid of programs, by making government spend and tax less, by reducing government as far as we can.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'