Stephen Moore - America was built on cheap and abundant...

America was built on cheap and abundant coal.

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Author Profession: Writer

Nationality: American

Born: February 16, 1960

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Melody Beattie, William Arthur Ward, Dale Carnegie, Dr. Seuss, H. L. Mencken, Napoleon Hill, W. E. B. Du Bois, Elbert Hubbard

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Abundant, America, Built, Cheap, Coal

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We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

Time Responsibility Feel Homeless

The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.

Historical Evidence Benefit Shows

Is there any nation on earth that has more natural attractions, from the scenic coastal towns of Maine to the volcanic islands of Hawaii and the natural beauty of our majestic national parks?

Beauty Natural Beauty Nation Earth

The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession of 2008-09.

Depression Great Strong Always

Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources of electricity.

Age Electricity Wood Fossil Fuels

Whenever there is an international crisis - an earthquake, a flood, a war - Americans provide more assistance than the people of any other nation.

War People Nation Earthquake

The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers.

Problem Higher Costs Consumers

The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.

People Purpose Permanent Create

Question: Why does anyone bother to listen to economists anymore? The profession has become an embarrassment, and the most respected economists have shown themselves to have as much predictive power as a deck of tarot cards.

Power Cards Listen Question

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

Envy Greed Left Fairness

The elimination of deductibility of state and local taxes will also encourage more privatization of municipal services.

Will More Encourage Taxes

In almost every case, whenever a tariff or quota is imposed on imports, that tax is strongly supported by the domestic industry getting the protective shield from lower-priced foreign competition. The sugar industry supports sugar tariffs; textile mills lobby for tariffs on foreign clothing.

Competition Clothing Sugar Tax

No one has ever taken a serious stab at reducing fraud and cheating in Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, earned income tax credits, and so on. Trump will.

Food Cheating Serious Will

Few nations have been as reliant on nuclear power as Korea. In many ways, cheap and reliable atomic energy helped make possible the 'miracle on the Han River' - i.e., the swift post-World War II economic surge of Korea.

War Power River Energy

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