Compassion Versus Reality

By Walter E. Williams: "Dr. Thomas Sowell, a distinguished economist and longtime friend and colleague, recently wrote a series of columns under the title 'A War of Words.' He pointed out that liberals succeed in duping the public because they are so clever with words that they give the appearance of compassion. Liberals talk about the need for 'affordable' housing and health care. They tarnish their enemies with terms such as 'price-gouging' and 'corporate greed.' Uninformed and unthinking Americans fall easy prey to this demagoguery.

Politicians exploit public demands that government ought to do something about this or that problem by taking........"