Some People Are Worth Learning More About

SEE HERE ... and one of them is Walter Williams ... HERE is Thomas Sowell on the same subject. Most of us have had too much given to us, and sometimes we don't fully appreciate the people in our midst who have risen through great hardship to achieve what they have. My own view is that we don't insist on enough personal responsibility and discipline, and frankly hard work on the part of the young. When you're given things too easily you begin to develop a sense of entitlement that is counter-factual. None of us are entitled to anything except a fair chance to make a contribution and get treated fairly in return. There is no such thing as a free lunch, as Robert Heinlein stressed with the acronym TANSTAAFL! GET IT!