The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.
Thomas SowellBeing willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Thomas SowellContrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.
Thomas SowellThose government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
Thomas SowellBrainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
Thomas SowellOne of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.
Thomas Sowell