Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Clever Political Rhetoric for the Masses

Good comments from Thomas Sowell:

'Senator Obama says that he is for free trade, provided it is "fair trade." That is election year rhetoric at its cleverest. Since "fair" is one of those words that can mean virtually anything to anybody, what this amounts to is that politicians can pile on whatever restrictions they want, in the name of fairness, and still claim to be for "free trade." Clever. We will all have to pay a cost for political restrictions and political cleverness, since there is no free lunch.'

'Americans who can vote would do well to start spending more time thinking about economic realities, instead of being swept away by political rhetoric.'

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