Re: Leftists knocking Friedman ?

Video61@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Feb 20, 7:29 pm, Jeffrey Turner <jtur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Lysander wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Perhaps you should read the entire quotation and in the context of
>>>what it is responding to. Perhaps you should understand Friedman's
>>>arguments before jumping into a thread about Friedman and wanting to
>>>argue democrats versus Republicans. Such partisan****p has no place in
>>>science.
>>
>>Economics ain't science.  Friedman was a toady to the wealthy who spent
>>his time trying to justify greed, regardless of the evidence.
> 
>  i ask every one of these cranks, show me one of his success stories,
> kenya, new zealand, chile, the u.k., argentina, etc., the list of
> failures is huge. they cannot show me one success story unless they
> lie.

Then in 2000, they tell Argentina, "don't do that."  Argentina doesn't
listen, and their crisis is over in months.  Bush couldn't get the U.S.
out of the doldrums in years.

--Jeff

-- 
It is only those who have neither
fired a shot nor heard the shrieks
and groans of the wounded who cry
aloud for blood, more vengeance, more
desolation.  War is hell.
--William Te***seh Sherman