Economics is nothing more than an extension of the law of physics with one extra added element – choice. God’s universal law that everything obeys is the law of physics. This isn’t good enough for politicians, thus man follows his own universal law – the law of unintended consequences. We still follow the law of physics; we just tend to do so more painfully than everything else in the universe because we think we’re somehow smarter than God. It doesn’t matter how a politician tries to spin it, there are only so many resources and not everyone can have everything. That is why we have to EARN our own way as individuals by hard work and EARNED reward. Capitalism will never die because it was never ‘born’. It has simply always been our way...

Are you obtuse? (Just curious…I love geometry too.)
I find it interest that the first comment that pulls out the race card and initiates the name calling in these comment sections are nearly always a progressive/liberal/leftist/statist – whatever you guys have ‘evolved’ yourselves into today. I trust that my fellow conservatives will follow Dr. King’s advice by examining the intellectual properties of the article for their objective value rather than denigrating to mindless name-calling and other vitriol that our philosophical opponents seem to thrive by.

Burn a tire every 'earth day' in honor of the great and mighty high wizard priest of the peaceful religion of Gaya - Al Gore (peace be upon him).

(Was that offensive enough? I can try again if needed. I'm completely sick of this PC 'save the cute animals' crap; it's all just money & power.)

Rave on Doug!

Once again Dr. Sowell had delivered implacable analysis. My father once bestowed the great wisdom I hinted in the subject line. Paraphrased – ‘the surest way to tell when something bad is about to happen is when you start to hear people constantly say “that would never happen.” These famous words have accompanied many tragedies from great wars to the sinking of the “unsinkable” Titanic.’ I still have tremendous faith in this country and our people, but as Dr. Sowell continually points out, ‘wisdom is the scarcest of all resources’ (also paraphrased and slightly misquoted). More worrisome still is when the most top offices are short on common wisdom.