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Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

This book delves into the effects of liberal policies and initiatives, exploring how they may inadvertently harm the very individuals and communities they aim to assist. more

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Mona Charen
Mona Charen

Mona Charen, born in 1957, is a renowned American columnist. Her work primarily focuses on political, social, and cultural issues, known for her incisive views and profound analysis. more

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“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.”

“The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.”

“The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies.”