Thomas Sowell warns us against it, at the same time adding some perspective on issues that Rick Perry is being pounded on by the rest of the Republican presidential contenders.
On Social Security, Governor Perry was not only right to call it a “Ponzi scheme,” but was also right to point out that this did not mean welshing on the government’s obligation to continue paying retirees what they had been promised.
...the ability to save young people from cervical cancer with a stroke of a pen was a temptation that any decent and humane individual would find hard to resist, even if Governor Perry himself now admits to having second thoughts about how it was done.
...The fact that he has more confidence in putting “boots on the ground” along the border, instead of relying on a fence that can be climbed over or tunneled under where there is no one around, is a logistical judgment, not a question of being against border control.
Perry is still out in front in spite of some truly dismal debate performances. It's a refreshing hint that policies and results may trump the sound bites this time around.
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