Re: Leftists knocking Friedman ?

On Mar 13, 6:35 pm, Vide...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 13, 8:06 pm, Dan Bloomquist <publi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > forbisga...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On Mar 13, 1:39 pm, Sketch System <sketch.sys...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> On Mar 12, 9:06 pm, Vide...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >>>  i am against laissez faire.
> > >> Yet you don't seem to understand what it is.
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> > > I think you have that backwards.
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> > This persists as I asked, 'Are you for it or against it?' As Vid seems
> > to bash both laissez faire and big government.
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> > Well, of course, the answer is a benign dictator****p.
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> > And the point is that fairness can not be reduced to a system.
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> > "Capitalism is man exploiting man. With socialism it is the other way
> > around." ~Unknown
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>  big government is a slogan that can be used by many. in my eyes big
> government is fascism. and  laissez faire is a winner under that
> system.

Again the attempt to back an assertion by claiming something is
actually its opposite.

> after all, forbisga said it best, the winners oppress, and
> they like the liberty laissez faire gives them to oppress and win.

And, how does voluntary trade give the liberty to oppress?

> i
> am a old style new dealer, keynes, galbraith, etc. its close to what
> the many of the founders envisioned. freedom from economic oppression
> that is enshrined in the constitution. and no one can guarantee that
> but a interventionist government on behalf of the people.  laissez
> faire does not like that, it inhibits their ability to oppress. they
> call it big government.

You are being vague in another lame attempt to create your own
definitions to say something is what it actually is not.  Laissez-fair
is trade without government intervention beyond that which is
necessary to protect individual and property rights, considered the
proper roll of government.