by Jeff D. Opdyke
The Sovereign Investor
Money for nothing.
Politicians and bureaucrats intensely fancy the notion. The more freebies they give the people — enhanced welfare, higher minimum wages, Obamacare, cash for clunkers — the less apt the people are to rise up and boot a politician’s butt outta office.
Alas, the intensity of one’s desire is no measure of the degree to which success occurs.
I loved the hell out of Dawn Allen in the eighth grade, but Dawn had no interest in me. Intensity yielded bupkis.