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Larry Elder
American
Journalist
Born:
Apr 27
,
1952
Better
Cannot
Father
Government
People
You
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
Larry Elder
Woman
Gun
Gun Control
Control
Further
Colonel
Demands
Like
Chicken
Legislation
Roots
Who
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
Larry Elder
War
People
Stupid
Too
Assumes
Reckless
Morally
Tactically
Both
Consume
Wrong
Conditions
Irresponsible
Bankrupt
Decide
Whether
War On Drugs
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder
Government
Failure
Capitalism
Risks
Practice
Nothing
Reap
Consequences
Way
Possibility
Out
Stays
Someone
Something
Take
Individuals
Call
Accept
Greatest
Least
America
Going
Represents
Rewards
Used
Theory
Lets
Why
Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Larry Elder
Charity
Welfare
Behavior
Corporate
Responsible
Principle
Makes
Private
Role
Personally
Less
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder
War
Health
Home
Justice
People
Problem
Treat
Matter
Will
Politicians
Others
Criminal
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Once
System
Cost
Troops
Troops Home
True
Health Problem
American
Brave
Scream
War On Drugs
Explain
Urge
American People
Bring
Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
Larry Elder
You
Easy
Doing
Want
Hard
According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.
Larry Elder
Today
System
Security
Administration
Only
Individual
Support
Supported
Continue
According
Cannot
While
Social
Workers
Social Security
Each
Each Individual
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
Larry Elder
Tired
You
Man
Father
Kid
He
Nobody
Hours
Maybe
Realize
Worked
Averaged
Hard
Ever
Four
Night
Sleep
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
Larry Elder
Work
Better
Benefit
Strings
System
Laws
Because
Than
Connected
Disproportionately
Elite
Pull
My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
Larry Elder
Mom
Marriage
Better
Made
Think
Bit
Married
Reconciled
Fact
Well
Were
Years
Little
Little Bit
Dad
If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
Larry Elder
Angry
Man
Become
White
Criminal
Way
Delinquent
Had
He
Feel
America
Did
Anybody
Reason
Dad
Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
Larry Elder
Kind
Lot
Child
Whole
Thing
Raising
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