Kirwin in college

Spring cleaning was early this year, and I’m replacing some old file units, and lo and behold, I found a list of Brian’s “facts of politics” that I wrote sometime in the late 80s. I know I didn’t write all of these, but I collected them and used to post this in my college dorm.

Funny how they relate to today.

1. Any society that focuses on redistributing wealth will rapidly discourage people from creating it.

2. Price isn’t what something is worth. It’s what someone is willing to pay for it.

3. There is no greater waste than government doing efficiently what it shouldn’t be doing at all.

4. Education that concentrates on student weaknesses rather than strength guarantees mediocrity.

5. Taxing vices forces government to encourage vices.

6. Criminals should get no benefits that law-abiding citizens can not get.

7. Education doesn’t need more computers in the classroom. It needs more classrooms in the computer.

8. How can there be a right to choose abortion but not a right to choose your child’s school?

9. Government will always protect the industries of yesterday against those of tomorrow.

10. If education prevented crime, there would be no white collar crime.

11. More laws don’t stop lawbreakers from breaking laws.

12. The first amendment is a restriction on government establishing a religion. It is not a restriction on religion participating in government.

13. Schools should be focused on what students can learn rather than what teachers can teach.

14. Those who complain the loudest about racial division are often its strongest practitioners.

15. The most immoral thing a government can do is to do for a man what he can and ought to do for himself.

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Brian Kirwin

The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.