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Some People Seem To Believe That For Each Problem There Is A Solution Readily Available - A Solution That Can Be Promptly Achieved By Passing A Law And Voting Some Money. I Think Of This As The Vending Machine Concept Of Social Change. Put A Coin In The Machine And Out Comes A Piece Of Candy. If There Is A Social Problem, Pass A Law And Out Comes A Solution.

Tax Reduction Has An Almost Irresistible Appeal To The Politician, And It Is No Doubt Also Gratifying To The Citizen. It Means More Dollars In His Pocket, Dollars That He Can Spend If Inflation Doesn't Consume Them First. But Dollars In His Pocket Won't Buy Him Clean Streets Or An Adequate Police Force Or Good Schools Or Clean Air And Water. Handing Money Back To The Private Sector In Tax Cuts And Starving The Public Sector Is A Formula For Producing Richer And Richer Consumers In Filthier And Filthier Communities. If We Stick To That Formula We Shall End Up In Affluent Misery.

The World Loves Talent But Pays Off On Character.

Much Education Today Is Monumentally Ineffective. All Too Often We Are Giving Young People Cut Flowers When We Should Be Teaching Them To Grow Their Own Plants.

We Need More Than Individual Value Systems; We Need A Shared Vision. A Nation Is Held Together By Shared Values, Shared Beliefs, Shared Attitudes. That Is What Enables A People To Maintain A Cohesive Society Despite The Tensions Of Daily Life. That Is What Enables Them To Rise Above The Conflicts That Plague Any Society.