Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

Once you're in heaven it makes no difference when you got there.

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?