Jack Kemp, an American Hero

Fiscal conservatism 104

One day about six or eight years ago, I was channel surfing and I saw a guy who looked vaguely familiar addressing a group about the economy.

This guy was Jack Kemp, former NFL quarterback and former Congressman from Buffalo, NY. I'm not a sports fan so I won't hold his football-playing against him. A guy's got to make a living. I believe he was also in the Reagan or first Bush administration as the head of HUD.

Kemp was riveting. As I recall, he talked about motivations and how to help the poor. He realized that compassion had to fit within capitalism; it couldn't be dictated "from the top down" as the government wants to do. He believed that "poor people" were winners under capitalism and losers under socialism. I think that is still true, and President Obama is (sadly) helping to prove that point.

I googled Kemp and came across a series of articles he wrote in 2008....

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