Are you impressed when some gazillionaire gives a ton of money to some charitable foundation? I’m not. No, I’m not impressed when someone with twenty billion dollars gives away ten billion. There’s the fact that they still have ten billion, so what kind of sacrifice is that? On the other hand, someone like Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams could probably make a convincing argument that a person capable of accumulating that much wealth would help society more by keeping the money and continuing to invest it. I am impressed when someone with only a thousand dollars gives five hundred of it to a person he or she believes needs it more than they do.
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CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson: "For many, Independence Day means having to get by - without depending on Congress." She thinks that's just awful. I think it's great.
-- July 5, 2008 - 7:51 am
-- Comments(0)We often hear the plea, "Can't we all just get along?" The answer is no. Accept it and move on.
-- July 1, 2008 - 9:37 am
-- Comments(0)In making my voting decisions I'm more concerned about what the government will do to me than what it will do for me.
-- July 1, 2008 - 9:20 am
-- Comments(0)The best argument against government-run health care is this: It's in the government's best interest for you to die. At least private providers want you to stay alive, if not real healthy.
-- June 29, 2008 - 10:43 am
-- Comments(0)As I approach my 70s I can still solve mathematical problems and write complex computer code. Now if I could just remember why I did it...
-- June 26, 2008 - 7:02 am
-- Comments(0)An environmentalist is someone who wants everyone to live a minimalist life except him or her.
-- June 18, 2008 - 7:39 am
-- Comments(0)Homosexuals claim that sexual orientation is hereditary. If that is true why hasn't homosexuality become extinct by now? Why does it seem to be proliferating instead?
-- June 6, 2008 - 7:19 am
-- Comments(0)Some are complaining that our wildlife refuges are being taken over by drug producers, hookers, homosexuals and illegal immigrants. Sounds like life there is pretty wild. Their solution? More money!
-- May 25, 2008 - 7:31 am
-- Comments(0)Am I the only one who questions the bottom-line of plastic recycling? Each week a very large, carbon-spewing truck lumbers down my street, stopping in front of each house and picking up maybe a half-dozen bottles and bags. They do this only because I'm forced to pay them to do it, not because they profit from the plastic. I suspect it goes into the landfill with the rest of the garbage.
-- May 22, 2008 - 11:52 am
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