I'm a real fan of John Stossel. Here, Paul Jacobs tells about Stossel's most recent 20/20 special.
In John Stossel's recent 20/20 special, "Myths, Lies, and Nasty Behavior," he once again proved he's no "TV icon." He's an iconoclast.
For nastiness he took on littering, add-on charges to cell phone bills, noisy intrusions, idiotic federal pork. Then he turned controversial, with welfare payments to undeserving farmers, and hypocrisy about public schools.
But busting myths is his specialty.
Are gas prices higher than ever? With the help of common-sense economics, he showed that gasoline prices are surprisingly low.
Is outsourcing really bad for America? Stossel revealed why it is that America's biggest outsourcers also created the most jobs...in America itself.
Finally, he attacked the myth that "Sharing is better." Littering is worse on shared, public property. Shared public toilets are often disgusting -- but European pay toilets are clean and tidy. Private property, not "sharing," works.
Even to save elephants. Elephant populations increase where tribes own the elephants and charge hunters to shoot them.
Paul's Jacob's Common Sense 2/11/05
