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I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.
I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.
I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.
All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.
Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interest, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.
For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.
I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
I am loved and accepted exactly how I am, right here and right now.