Your failure to understand freedom does not make me inconsistent. On the one hand we should keep it in the private sector and on the other we shouldn't listen to a guy that has received billions from the government and pay more taxes. Seems pretty consistent to me.

To clarify, if Thomas Sowell says something, I run it through my own brain before I accept it. If Jason Lewis espouses his opinion on a subject, I use common sense and my own thinking before his words any day. In short, I don't do anything because someone else says I should, I use my own brain. If Buffet wants to take away my freedom, why should I listen? If you start with freedom and work from there, generally you cannot go wrong.

You ask me if I will have my same views, well I could ask you the same thing. When Europe falls like dominoes because of social entitlement programs, pensions and general business stifling regulations, will you learn from history and change your tune?

The proof is in the pudding and Europe will fall due to their own financial policies. America isn't so close yet because we aren't as socialist, but we are following. Freedom, lower taxes and regulations are almost always followed by increased prosperity and an increase in the general welfare of the population, not the other way around. When people understand that, we can finally move forward in this world. Until that time we sit here spinning in circles.