By: Thomas Sowell
| Posted: February 7, 2012 3:55 AM
Gov. Mitt Romney's statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing toward endorsing his coronation as the GOP's nominee for president -- with 90 percent of the delegates still not yet chosen -- have been trying to sweep his statement under the rug.
In America, we have an intrinsic value for “competition.” Competition is the driving force behind a healthy free market, and it is from this free market that we derive a great deal of our political freedom.
