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10-13-2009, 05:35 AM
Stossel warns against trusting government fixes
BY RON SYLVESTER
The Wichita Eagle
As a television reporter, John Stossel learned the value of a sound bites.
Stossel used quick quips and one-liners to rouse the audience during his calls for less government Monday night at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex.
"I'd say they're spending like drunken sailors," Stossel said of Congress. "But that would be insulting drunken sailors, who spend their own money."
The one-liners drew the ovations as the former co-anchor of ABC's "20/20" spoke of the contradictions within both his libertarian leanings and his journalism career.
Stossel, now headed to host his own show on the Fox Business Network, was a keynote speaker for Wichita State University's Communications this week. The speech was co-sponsored by the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation.
After years reporting on business and consumer affairs, Stossel told the audience he's learned government intrusion mucks up the engines that run smoothly in the free market of the private sector.
"It took you five years to get a railroad bridge, I read in the paper this morning, and they've been working on Kellogg for how long?" Stossel said. "And government is going to run health care?"
That people in other countries live longer, spend less on health care and cover everyone doesn't mean
http://www.kansas.com/news/breaking/story/1009838.html
BY RON SYLVESTER
The Wichita Eagle
As a television reporter, John Stossel learned the value of a sound bites.
Stossel used quick quips and one-liners to rouse the audience during his calls for less government Monday night at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex.
"I'd say they're spending like drunken sailors," Stossel said of Congress. "But that would be insulting drunken sailors, who spend their own money."
The one-liners drew the ovations as the former co-anchor of ABC's "20/20" spoke of the contradictions within both his libertarian leanings and his journalism career.
Stossel, now headed to host his own show on the Fox Business Network, was a keynote speaker for Wichita State University's Communications this week. The speech was co-sponsored by the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation.
After years reporting on business and consumer affairs, Stossel told the audience he's learned government intrusion mucks up the engines that run smoothly in the free market of the private sector.
"It took you five years to get a railroad bridge, I read in the paper this morning, and they've been working on Kellogg for how long?" Stossel said. "And government is going to run health care?"
That people in other countries live longer, spend less on health care and cover everyone doesn't mean
http://www.kansas.com/news/breaking/story/1009838.html