Thomas Sowell-Occupy Wall street

[wompus]

Read this and you will understand how bad Democrats have become.......


Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social
theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities
Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a
libertarian perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman
Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford
University. Sowell was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem,
New York. He dropped out of high school, and served in the United
States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He had received a
bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a master's
degree from Columbia University in 1959. In 1968, he earned his
doctorate degree in economics from the University of Chicago. Dr.
Sowell has served on the faculties of several universities, including
Cornell and University of California, Los Angeles, and worked for
"think tanks" such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980 he has worked at
the Hoover Institution. He is the author of more than 30 books.

By Dr. Sowell

The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to
date of what President Barack Obama's America looks like. It is an
America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent
rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage
and destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly.

It is an America where history is rewritten to honor dictators,
murderers and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism,
hatred, class warfare and murder are all promoted as acceptable means
of overturning the American civil society.

It is an America where humans have been degraded to the level of
animals: defecating in public, having sex in public, devoid of basic
hygiene. It is an America where the basic tenets of a civil society,
including faith, family, a free press and individual rights, have been
rejected. It is an America where our founding documents have been
shredded and, with them, every person'sguaranteed liberties.

It is an America where, ultimately, great suffering will come to the
American people, but the rulers like Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry
Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Jesse
Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, liberal college professors, union bosses and
other loyal liberal/Communist Party members will live in opulent
splendor.

It is the America that Obama and the Democratic Party have created
with the willing assistance of the American media, Hollywood, unions,
universities, the Communist Party of America, the Black Panthers and
numerous anti-American foreign entities.

Barack Obama has brought more destruction upon this country in four
years than any other event in the history of our nation, but it is
just the beginning of what he and his comrades are capable of.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is just another step in their plan for
the annihilation of America.

"Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only
an intellectual could ignore or evade it."




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[Idaho]

Dr. Sowell is correct and states the case perfectly.

Thanks for posting Mike.

[Loafer]

We are in trouble in this country. What I want to know is how do we stop this mess and head in the right direction?
History will show what went wrong because of who's actions.
Who will be the one with the correct direction to get us out of this mess?
One of the things I learned from raising three sons was, that if you flip flop on decisions you are at a disadvantage to you children. You need to ride the decisions out for a longer period of time to be successful.
Have we as a country done this in recent years?
I don't think so.
What are the leaders of this country really trying to do to us?
They have divided us and are continuing to keep us focused on door # 2 when we should be looking inside door#1. JMO

[ponch]

I couldn't find this by Sowell. What Sowell said about OWS is here: http://www.unionleader.com/article/2...ON02/711089989

The worst is when people take credit for another's work, second is when someone is attributed to something they didn't write. Wompus should provide a link to the original article to prove authenticity. Email forwards don't count.

[Yellow Jacket]

I read an article by Thomas Sowell in the Atlanta Journal - Constitution last week that sounds quite like this. I will have to see if I can find it.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by Yellow Jacket

I read an article by Thomas Sowell in the Atlanta Journal - Constitution last week that sounds quite like this. I will have to see if I can find it.

It may be the article I posted with the link. His articles are syndicated.

[glwilson]

Originally Posted by ponch

I couldn't find this by Sowell. What Sowell said about OWS is here: http://www.unionleader.com/article/2...ON02/711089989

The worst is when people take credit for another's work, second is when someone is attributed to something they didn't write. Wompus should provide a link to the original article to prove authenticity. Email forwards don't count.

I agree... you just shouldn't forward spam-emails as if they are fact, and Wompus you have been doing this for some time now.

Sowell is a well known economist, and statements like this should be fairly easy to find and document... but I could not find any verification these statements are attributed to him directly. It has similarity to what some of his thoughts are or would be; but no verification of authenticity have I found.

Wompus... do not do anyone the disservice of forwarding spam emails that are not authenticated. It only clouds the issues and truth concerning matters of the utmost importance at this time where people appear to be confused, scared, and overall pessimistic about their future.

In times like these, if you are going to do anyone a favor it would be to make sure you provide valid, and substantiated points of clarity so people have a resource they can depend on for facts rather than fiction or rhetoric.

Just saying....

[Yellow Jacket]

Here is the actual article I read in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week. While it does speak towards the "Occupy" movement it is quite different from what was attributed to Dr. Sowell in the earlier post.
I have been reading Dr. Sowell's articles for many years now and I agree with nearly everything he writes.

Here are my sources:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell110111.php3
http://townhall.com/columnists/thoma...ule/page/full/

Democracy versus Mob Rule
By Thomas Sowell

In various cities across the country, mobs of mostly young, mostly incoherent, often noisy and sometimes violent demonstrators are making themselves a major nuisance.

Meanwhile, many in the media are practically gushing over these "protesters," and giving them the free publicity they crave for themselves and their cause -- whatever that is, beyond venting their emotions on television.
Members of the mobs apparently believe that other people, who are working while they are out trashing the streets, should be forced to subsidize their college education -- and apparently the president of the United States thinks so too.
But if these loud mouths' inability to put together a coherent line of thought is any indication of their education, the taxpayers should demand their money back for having that money wasted on them for years in the public schools.
Sloppy words and sloppy thinking often go together, both in the mobs and in the media that are covering them. It is common, for example, to hear in the media how some "protesters" were arrested. But anyone who reads this column regularly knows that I protest against all sorts of things -- and don't get arrested.
The difference is that I don't block traffic, join mobs sleeping overnight in parks or urinate in the street. If the media cannot distinguish between protesting and disturbing the peace, then their education may also have wasted a lot of taxpayers' money.
Among the favorite sloppy words used by the shrill mobs in the streets is "Wall Street greed." But even if you think people in Wall Street, or anywhere else, are making more money than they deserve, "greed" is no explanation whatever.
"Greed" says how much you want. But you can become the greediest person on earth and that will not increase your pay in the slightest. It is what other people pay you that increases your income.
If the government has been sending too much of the taxpayers' money to people in Wall Street -- or anywhere else -- then the irresponsibility or corruption of politicians is the problem. "Occupy Wall Street" hooligans should be occupying Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.
Maybe some of the bankers or financiers should have turned down the millions and billions that politicians were offering them. But sainthood is no more common in Wall Street than on Pennsylvania Avenue -- or in the media or academia, for that matter.
Actually, some banks did try to refuse the government bailout money, to avoid the interference with their business that they knew would come with it. But the feds insisted -- and federal regulators' power to create big financial problems for banks made it hard to say no. The feds made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
People who cannot distinguish between democracy and mob rule may fall for the idea that the hooligans in the street represent the 99 percent who are protesting about the "greed" of the one percent. But these hooligans are less than one percent and they are grossly violating the rights of vastly larger numbers of people who have to put up with their trashing of the streets by day and their noise that keeps working people awake at night.
As for the "top one percent" in income that attract so much attention, angst and denunciation, there is always going to be a top one percent, unless everybody has the same income. That top one percent has no more monopoly on sainthood or villainy than people in any other bracket.
Moreover, that top one percent does not consist of the "millionaires and billionaires" that Barack Obama talks about. You don't even have to make half a million dollars to be in the top one percent.
Moreover, this is not an enduring class of people. Nor are people in other income brackets. Most of the people in the top one percent at any given time are there for only one year. Anyone who sells an average home in San Francisco can get into the top one percent in income -- for that year. Other one-time spikes in income account for most of the people in that top one percent.
But such plain facts carry little weight amid the heady rhetoric and mindless emotions of the mob and the media.

[ponch]

That is the article I linked.

[glwilson]

I would agree with you Bob on your assessment of Sowell and also have known of him for years.