The Solution is to Think In Terms of Tradeoffs

Here's a letter to the Washington Times:

Ridiculing Charlie Crist's 'plan' to keep Social Security solvent simply by eliminating "waste and fraud," Samuel Burkeen properly complains that politicians too often insult us with such idiotic and empty promises (Letters, May 8).  But the appropriate response to the likes of Mr. Crist is not to demand that he and other politicians offer substantive "solutions."  As Thomas Sowell points out, in economic matters there are seldom "solutions"...