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Larry Elder
American
Journalist
About the author
A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#Woman
#Control
#Legislation
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#Goal
According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#Security
#Support
#Today
#Workers
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#People
#War
#Wrong
#Drugs
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#Job
#Creation
#Causes
#Benefits
#Productivity
#Unemployment
#Globalization
#Manufacturing
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#Washington
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#People
#Will
#Home
#War
#American
#Justice
#Troops
#Health
#Politicians
#Drugs
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#Logic
#Reason
#Control
#Passion
#Battle
#Laws
#News
#Emotion
#Legislation
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#Nothing
#Practice
#Failure
#Government
#America
#Consequences
#Possibility
#Theory
#Capitalism
Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#Welfare
#Behavior
#Corporate
#Charity
In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
Larry Elder,
American
Journalist
#Years
#Books
#Spain