Interesting quotes

World Net Daily’s Roger Hedgcock writes…

The U.S. Senate voted unanimously last week to adopt a resolution apologizing for slavery.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, lead sponsor of the resolution, said, "You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago…."

Senator, you didn't do it 100 years ago because 100 years ago you Democrats were enforcing Jim Crow segregation laws, poll taxes to keep blacks from voting, and riding around in sheets and pointy hats just in case blacks didn't get the message.

Dave Ramsey writes…

So many people believe we operate with a fixed-pie economy. They think money is gone forever if it leaves one place, but this is a faulty premise, because it can just as easily go to another place. My good friend Rabbi Daniel Lapin has a wonderful explanation for how this works. He calls it a comparison of cake versus candles. If you slice a cake and give yourself a bigger piece, there's less for me. But money isn't like the cake; it's like the candles! If you light a candle and use it to light other candles, no candle is diminished. There is even more light!

Communists and socialists believe money is like a cake, and if you get some, there's less left for me. But if you understand and believe that money is more like the candles, then you're probably a capitalist. In capitalism, it doesn't mean you lose just because I win; it can just as easily mean that we both win. Once you get adjusted to this kind of thinking, the marketplace isn't nearly as scary!

Posted by Danny Carlton at June 22, 2009 8:12 AM