Words Of Wisdom From People Smarter Than Me (Granted, it's a large club)

A few choice tidbits harvested from a random walk around this inter-thingy.

This first quote nicely puts into context the hubbub regarding Romney's tax returns:

Apparently, I’m supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine.

The next few quotes come from Thomas Sowell. If you're not familiar with him, I urge you to become so. His life reflects the classic American rags-to-riches success story. Born into a poor black family at a time when discrimination was both overt and covert, he nevertheless overcame. After serving in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, Sowell went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard, followed by a Master's degree from Columbia and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

If that's not sufficient bona fides, he has been criticized by the Democratic National Committee and Media Matters, among other liberal groups, perhaps because Sowell is the insightful articulate intellectual that barack obama aspires to be, but falls far short of.

Sowell has published numerous books and articles. He also is a nationally syndicated columnist.

A brief sample:

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. ... The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

And finally, one that is particularly relevant given that our taxes are due tomorrow:

Elections should be held on April 16th - the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.