Quote:The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

Good to remember cause and effect. That the order of events is important, criticial, to the story as a whole.

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/106691/

I can agree with this.
Once a moron, always a moron.

You didn't cite who it was from. The wikipedia entry on Glenn Reynolds also cites this great quote from him: "I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons." But, Reynolds is Instapundit.