Gitzo Loc: Indiana

Warning; This article is intended to be read by intelligent, thoughtful, "normal" people. ONLY! All others will be hypnotized and fed to great white sharks! (As the idiot, Silver would say, HaHaHaHa! (Just kidding ) But if you're a Lib, it will probably give you a month long headache, so we don't want any of the usual "P&M"ing from any of you libs "out there", (or else! )

This article was written by Thomas Sowell; (that's why it says, "Article By: Thomas Sowell" ) If I have any remarks after reading the article, I'll be sure to put: "Then Gitzo says:" (for the benefit of ignorant lib trolls whose comprehension skills are minimal, at best. )




Fact-Free Liberals

Thomas Sowell | Jan 21, 2014


Someone summarized Barack Obama in three words -- "educated," "smart" and "ignorant." Unfortunately, those same three words would describe all too many of the people who come out of our most prestigious colleges and universities today.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again. Economic equality? That was tried in the 19th century, in communities set up by Robert Owen, the man who coined the term "socialism." Those communities all collapsed.

It was tried even earlier, in 18th century Georgia, when that was a British colony. People in Georgia ended up fleeing to other colonies, as many other people would vote with their feet in the 20th century, by fleeing many other societies around the world that were established in the name of economic equality.

But who reads history these days? Moreover, those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the left -- which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study -- are not likely to get much attention.

The net results are bright people, with impressive degrees, who have been told for years how brilliant they are, but who are often ignorant of facts that might cause them to question what they have been indoctrinated with in schools and colleges.

Recently Kirsten Powers repeated on Fox News Channel the discredited claim that women are paid only about three-quarters of what a man is paid for doing the same work.

But there have been empirical studies, going back for decades, showing that there is no such gap when the women and men are in the same occupation, with the same skills, experience, education, hours of work and continuous years of full-time work.

Income differences between the sexes reflect the fact that women and men differ in all these things -- and more. Young male doctors earn much more than young female doctors. But young male doctors work over 500 hours a year more than young female doctors.

Then there is the current hysteria which claims that people in the famous "top one percent" have incomes that are rising sharply and absorbing a wholly disproportionate share of all the income in the country.

But check out a Treasury Department study titled "Income Mobility in the U.S. from 1996 to 2005." It uses income tax data, showing that people who were in the top one percent in 1996 had their incomes fall -- repeat, fall -- by 26 percent by 2005.

What about the other studies that seem to say the opposite? Those are studies of income brackets, not studies of the flesh-and-blood human beings who are moving from one bracket to another over time. More than half the people who were in the top one percent in 1996 were no longer there in 2005.

This is hardly surprising when you consider that their incomes were going down while there was widespread hysteria over the belief that their incomes were going up.

Empirical studies that follow income brackets over time repeatedly reach opposite conclusions from studies that follow individuals. But people in the media, in politics and even in academia, cite statistics about income brackets as if they are discussing what happens to actual human beings over time.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. For example the New York Times crusaded for government-provided prenatal care, citing the fact that black mothers had prenatal care less often than white mothers -- and that there were higher rates of infant mortality among blacks.

But was correlation causation? American women of Chinese, Japanese and Filipino ancestry also had less prenatal care than whites -- and lower rates of infant mortality than either blacks or whites.

When statistics showed that black applicants for conventional mortgage loans were turned down at twice the rate for white applicants, the media went ballistic crying racial discrimination. But whites were turned down almost twice as often as Asian Americans -- and no one thinks that is racial discrimination.

Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.



Then Gitzo says;
Gitzo doesn't need to say anything, after THAT! I think Thomas Sowell pretty much "nailed it"!

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

Love it, Gitzo!! And the cartoons only add to it. LIberalism is a disease. Oh, if you listen to Kirsten and Juan (Williams) they are very rapidly shifting gears and jumping off the Obama chuckwagon.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/23/juan-williams-liberal-media-will-shut-you-down-stab-you-kill-you-fire-you-if-disagree-video/

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

Ever read about The French Revolution?

The Treasury story just can't be true.

I think someone made it up.

mugwhump Loc: San Diego CA

Typical Turdlow deny it ever happened ...go stick your head in the ground and then you won't have to try to refute anything with your inane drivel :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

Very intelligent. :-)

I know you will be disappointed, but I take pride in the name Turdlow.

It is an honor to be despised by people of your intelligence.

Every time you call me that, you say more about yourself than about me.

Speak again.

Dave Johnson Loc: Grand Rapids, Michigan

I respect Thomas Sowell a lot. He's an intelligent man and uses well reasoned arguments but you also have to know that he is the very definition of conservative. He's a libertarian and writes his dissertations from that perspective. The thing to remember is that he is writing for the opinion page. There are equally qualified liberal writers who would take an opposing view on these issues. Thomas Sowell's Opinion is well reasoned but not necessarily correct.

But what do I know, I'm just a ignorant lib troll.

Coincidentally, I doubt Thomas Sowell would think that those cartoons ring true. Maybe the first one.

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

This is from a man that compared Mr Obama to hitler. Remember folks hitler was responsible for the deaths of 75,ooo,ooo people eventually over the course of his ruling Germany and this includes people from Europe, America, England and other countries. I really think that doing a comparison such as this is extremely ignorant. This man sowell has a distorted comprehension as to who and what hitler really was. Considering that such a comparison is both disgusting and ignorant how can anybody in there right mind consider anything this man says as fact? This is just more conservative rhetoric from a person that posted a false article about a muslim outreach program that the US government supposedly had.

Wink44 Loc: Montgomery AL

Once again, we see adherence to the Liberal Creed, "When the facts counter your perspective and opinion, find the source and kill him."

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

10 startling facts about global wealth inequality
BY EZRA KLEIN
January 22 at 3:19 pm
1. On Monday, Oxfam published a startling report showing that the richest 85 people in the world are worth more than the poorest 3.5 billion.
2. The numbers Oxfam is using come from Credit Suisse's 2013 Global Wealth Report. There are a lot of amazing numbers in that report.
3. For instance, Switzerland leads in average wealth, with each adult worth, on average, $513,000. Australia is in second place, at $403,000. The U.S. is in the $250,000-300,000 range.
4. But that's average wealth — which is to say, that number spikes if Bill Gates moves into your country. Median wealth is a more interesting measure. There, Australia leads with $220,000. They're followed by Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Italy, the UK, and Japan. The U.S. falls way back on this measure, with a median wealth of just $45,000.
5. Think about that for a minute: Most Americans are worth less than most Italians, Belgians and Japanese.
6. Some researchers think Credit Suisse overestimates median wealth in the U.S. Other estimates put us in 27th place.
7. The tremendous difference between average wealth and median wealth is the country's level of wealth inequality at work.
8. Global wealth inequality is even more startling, of course. After accounting for debts, assets of more than $4,000 put a person in the wealthiest half of world citizens. Assets of more than $75,000 put them in the top 10 percent. Assets of more than $753,000 put them in the top 1 percent.
9. This leads to the most startling figure in the report: "Our estimates suggest that the lower half of the global population possesses barely 1% of global wealth, while the richest 10% of adults own 86% of all wealth, and the top 1% account for 46% of the total. "
10. There's a lot of turnover amidst the world's top billionaires. Of the 100 top billionaires in 2001, only 37 remained on the list in 2013.

Ezra Klein is the editor of Wonkblog and a columnist at the Washington Post, as well as a contributor to MSNBC and Bloomberg.

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Gitzo Loc: Indiana

Dave; You're anything BUT ignorant, and you're certainly NOT a troll; you may feel like you're liberal "now", but my best guess is, as you grow older and wiser, and as you see with your own eyes what the libs are "up to", I'm betting right now that you won't always be liberal; You're one of the very few on this forum that I completely respect, even though you may not agree with me very often; listen to or read David Horowitz sometime; he's in a class with Thomas Sowell.......and he started out as a liberal activist.

You are more than welcome on any discussion that I start; I don't necessarily "require" that people agree with my opinions; only that they will admit to established facts.

Trolls are more like dog pecker gnats; they just "hang around" where they aren't wanted, have nothing intelligent to add to the topic or conversation, and generally make "PITA" out of themselves; (you never do that ).

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

You have just proved much of what I've said about you; you are so damned ignorant that you actually think that people will attach more credibility to a blithering idiot (you ), than "this man sowell" as you call him; I don't play the race card often, but after that, I think you're a racist! and I KNOW that your pathetic, relentless (and futile ) attempt to gain traction by prattling on and on and on and on about "that Muslim Outreach Program", phony though the article may be, is really becoming very boring to people who hear it on every post you make for weeks on end. Not to mention the FACT (which is common knowledge ) that YOUR "Mr. Obama" (as YOU refer to him ), is by it's self sufficient to, make YOU look like an bubblering FOOL to everyone reading it. ( you remind me of a rat who stays on the sinking ship and drowns, because he doesn't have enough sense to realize the damned ship he's "on" IS sinking! You're ON a "sinking ship" you fool, and it won't bother me a bit if you "go down with your ship"!

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

Turdlow; You have really stepped in the dog "do do" now, if Ezra Klein is the best
you can do! Next you'll be using Michael Moore and Al Gore as your "expert source"! I hate to tell tell you this, but Ezra Klein has about as much "credibility" as Sean Penn! Or that world class tax-dodger from New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen! It won't make any difference though; everyone on UHH already knows that you're as "loopy" as "ole sarg"! (who can't even spell his OWN screen name right )

Patr Loc: Richfield, Utah

If we could only have stopped these people from becoming rich in time! Those evil capitalists.

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

You show excessive zeal to demonstrate your own ignorance.

sigh....

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

Just to remind you, you brought up the name sowell. So now I guess that you are denying that hitler is responsible for the death of 75,000,000 people? In any rational persons way of thinking, what does this have to do with racism? Poor baby, you seem to be very agitated.