Walter Williams

I found an economics professor at George Mason University who has some interesting quotes. You can visit his website yourself and check him out.

Here is one excerpt from an interview I found:
"It’s nonsense if you say, “Oh, well that’s the same thing as my right to free speech.” If you apply these bogus concepts of rights to, let’s say, the right of free speech or my right to freedom of travel, that would mean that in order for me to enjoy my right to free speech, it would impose an obligation on others to provide me with an auditorium and a microphone—or my right to freedom of travel would require others to provide me with airplane fare and hotel accommodations.
Of course, for the leftist people who are pushing these kind of things, and many people on the right as well, it sounds so caring to say that somebody has the right to medical care. And here comes Williams who says, No, you don’t have a right to medical care; you don’t have a right to anything that you can’t afford. Now, because I take that position, that may sound mean to people. But when one reaches into his own pockets to help his fellow man, that’s quite laudable.
However, when one reaches into somebody else’s pocket to help his fellow man, that’s despicable. It’s nothing more than theft."

Dr. Williams is a black man in his 70s. He teaches economics as a way of thinking. He is strong on individual rights and freedoms. He was raised in Philadelphia by a single mother.

Check him out.

'til later