Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions

Thomas Sowell notes that

On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

Obamacare is perhaps the ultimate in busybody politics. People who have never even run a drugstore, much less a hospital, blithely prescribe what must be done by the entire medical system, from doctors to hospitals to producers of pharmaceutical drugs to health-insurance companies.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. The price of their self-indulgence is the sacrifice of our freedom. If we don’t defend ourselves against them, who will?

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