When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.

Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.