IndianaJones 99 we'd love to have you. Work hard like your dad and you'll be fine. God bless you

There's nothing "Uncle Tom"ish about wanting your people to live up to a standard of honesty and decency. Thank you for doing things the right way.

Thank you! And welcome!

I am reading this 2 years on. Did you get your citizenship?

That's called consistency

Yet the USA is such a beautiful country that even when you have, such as in the case of my family, they forgive you if it’s a legitimate reason and they allow you in. Thomas Sowell is wonderful.

@@kaeurn - You're right; I'm Filipino and I have relatives who also became legalized even if they broke immigration law initially. They just needed to come clean and show a real desire to go through the legal process moving forward. It's just sad that propagandists and political activists love to portray the U.S. as some racist, bigoted country for enforcing immigration laws that are pretty much the standard in other countries.

@@leadlefthand yes. It is sad. I’m Central American. I think it’s something people who know like us need to speak up about. This country saved me from God only knows what. It’s my country. I’ll forever be grateful. It deeply saddens me that it’s OWN people are now buying into the terrible things being said about it. I will gladly say how much I love this country and why!!!!

PhD just means "piled higher and deeper" moreso than it ever did before.

Why not just have an American president?

It wouldn't matter, Presidents are not omnipotent and the rest of the cabinet are corrupt on both sides.

Mark Sauck it is our job to let more people know about him. Most importantly, more young people.

Unfortunately, Sowell withdrew from the media because they constantly maligned and misrepresented him. He only appears when he thinks the person giving the interview will not edit everything to change the point he's making.

the bomb is to manipulate the world

You definitely can halt the spread of certain types of technology and we’ve been doing so successfully for 80 years.

You personally can’t get ahead, therefore taxation is evil? Have you considered maybe this has something to do with you, and not simply with taxation? After all, many others have gotten ahead, despite the existence of taxes. Taxes are a pain, and you can certainly argue that tax rates are too high. But saying the very existence of taxes is evil is simply to throw a temper tantrum; any true civilization will need to raise money in order to pay for certain things.

@@therainman7777 Inflation, high interest rates then deflationary cycles. Destructive. Taxation and the Federal Reserve, both enacted in 1913, are said to be usurious and unconstitutional. This is not a "temper tantrum." We are being used.

@@LMike2004 They’re “said to be” usurious and unconstitutional? By whom? You can’t just simply say something is “said to be” something as if that were proof. The earth is “said to be” flat by some people-that doesn’t make it true. Also, the idea that taxes are “unconstitutional” is preposterous given that taxes are _in the constitution._ Get a grip.

@@therainman7777The "Federal Reserve" is neither. Americans owe trillions to the FR for the privilege of using money that we asked them to print for us, but get this....they charge us interest on money they printed. They are not a bank. It is a private entity that we cannot even audit. There is no reason for me to "get a grip." I'm just sitting here typing. No hysterics.

professional political will destroy his morality

And? We’ve had them for 80 more years and have never used them again, despite being in multiple wars and having many opportunities where we could have used them. The end of WWII was an extreme circumstance where the world simply could not go on fighting anymore, and Japan was making clear that under no conditions were they going to surrender. The world was tired, weary, and 60 million were dead. It was a horrible thing, but we were in a horrible and extreme circumstance. Ever since then, the US has been a trustworthy steward of nuclear power and has not used nuclear weapons against any of our many, many enemies-even during the period when we were the only country (or one of only two countries) that had them, and could have used them without any fear of a retaliatory attack. Overall I think the US has certainly earned its right to not want many other nations to have nuclear weapons.

What an idiotic take. It’s naive beliefs like this that risk bringing down the whole project of civilization.

Your opinion didn’t age well and you were wrong.

What are you talking about? What over production? It’s an interview.

@@therainman7777 An interview, a successful interview, involves 2 or more, and talk. The graphics, the constant distracting cuts, the "production" is distracting.

khomeini is the main problem with iran

+ChannelMath Agreed, Aaron. ChannelMath, consult the Community Reinvestment Act put forward by the Carter administration and used by Janet Reno under Clinton to force lenders under penalty of prosecution if the lending standards weren't slackened. GW Bush also moved on with this practice and we saw the end result in the real estate debacle which was the main impetus in the crash of the market. It is not so much the Party but in fact government itself whose meddling, regardless of any good intentions, that is to blame. A good rule of thumb is: You can't loan $300,000 to someone working for $30,000 a year.

Go read the Wiki article on this topic and don't jump to conclusions. Here are the links. You will find that there is controversy about the causes but that to dismiss Sowell's explanation is not acceptable - his explanation is consistent with much of the evidence and explains at least part of the bubble. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_United_States_housing_bubble en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble#Causes

There are economic impacts of marriage, though. Plenty of them.

He's not advocating going to war with Iran. He's advocating bombing their nuclear bomb facilities, which the Obama administration allowed them to build for some promise they never intended to keep.

Incorrect. Adherence to any ideology-including religions-changes the level of rationality in a populace. _Extreme_ adherence to any ideology can cause _extreme_ changes in the level of rationality. In this case, we are talking about a belief system that tells you that dying in defense of your faith is the greatest thing you can do and will lead to an eternity spent in paradise. Surely this will have some impact on the way people behave, relative to a society that does not hold such beliefs.

the american leftists put khomeini into power

Hussein Badakhchani please elaborate.

Hello Siul, ultimately Sowell, in this instance, is reiterating what was the prescribed truth with respect to Iran as propagandised by the Israeli elections that control most of US politics until the election on DT. Please don't misunderstand my persuasion. I'm confident that TS would be the first to criticise his own ignorance, retrospectively given the information that exists today

Hussein Badakhchani Ha! He is a hardcore conservative, he still believes Iran should not have nuclear weapons which i agree but why is his instance on Israel different in regard to wmd?

From where I am sitting it is still a bad deal, and will need more decisive action to deal with affectively.

Yeah Sowell wasn’t wrong though.

It’s literally short for “Japanese.” It’s an abbreviation. Calm down and stop trying to tell other people how to talk.

Allothers Weretaken he’s a conservative too

So holding _one_ contrary position makes you “nowhere near” a particular ideology? Sowell is definitely a libertarian. If you don’t realize that, it’s because you haven’t read enough of his books. He most certainly is, purity tests notwithstanding.

Count chocula read his basic economics . as corp American becomes more efficient in free markets to drive down costs to compete it's is inevitable

In basic economics he said something about it. He made an example of how cars came in an took away jobs from house providers and the industrial revolution which brought in allot of technological changes. His point was when a job is lost in one field, a job is gained in another field.