Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.