Free lunches, line forms on the left, one cross each

Sometimes I do find myself puzzled: why don't privatizers understand that their schemes rest on the peculiar belief that there is a giant free lunch there for the taking? But then I remember what Upton Sinclair wrote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

--Paul Krugman


And I reiterate my snappy definition:

A socialist is a person who understands there's no such thing as a free lunch. A capitalist is a person who believes that a free lunch is the ultimate goal.