Cal Thomas Art Quotations

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or at least self-sustaining, but this president never talks about how they might achieve that goal. Instead, he criticizes those who made the right choices and now enjoy the fruits of their labor. Rather than use successful people as examples for the poor to follow, the president seeks to punish the rich with higher taxes and more regulations on their businesses.

The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.

Victimhood and a 'can't do' spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.

It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.