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"A British doctor has proposed that the 'grossly' overweight be involuntarily committed to 'enclosed hospitals' to shed their excess pounds. He justifies this on the grounds that obesity costs British socialized medicine 'hundreds of millions of dollars.'"

--Bill Birmingham, "Brickbats"

"By August 1977 the unemployment rate for black teenagers had reached 41 percent, compared with 14 percent for white teenagers (and about 3.5 percent for white males).... Small wonder that Milton Friedman refers to the minimum wage law as 'the most anti-Negro law on our statute books.'"

--Robert Poole Jr., "Legislating Unemployment"

"Jimmy Carter and...