On Thu, 15 May 2008 07:18:53 +0530, John Galt wrote:
>
> "Harold Burton" <hal.i.burton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:hal.i.burton-B2640D.21395514052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> In article
>> <88ec7336-1eba-4980-9600-28c2a4d6e62c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Bret Cahill <BretCahill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> Friedman was an issue dodger just like all the remaining ****lls at GOP
>>> "thank" tanks like Hoover, Heritage, Am. Enterprise, the Chicago
>>> School, etc.
>>>
>>> Friedman would never address the land issues raised by the Georgists
>>> and he'ld never touch the "free markets w/o free speech" issue either.
>>>
>>> When you dodge issues that are fundamental to your field you are a
>>> fraud.
>>
>>
>> Care for some cheese with that whine?
>>
>>
>> Yeah, and let us know when you win a Nobel Prize.
>
> It's also a classic straw man. "I'll decide what issues should be
> fundamental to 'your field', so I can criticize you when you don't
address
> them."
>
>>
>> Love the sound of leftards whining.
>
> Well, there are plenty (a substantive majority, even) who are free
marketers
> and have no quarrel with Friedman. The head of Obama's economic team is
from
> U of Chicago.
>
> That said, there are indeed those who exist on the political fringe that
> have no idea how intertwined human behavior is with economic needs, and
are
> thus doomed to criticze men like Friedman ad infinitum (and for the rest
of
> us, ad nauseum) based on some Cliff Notes they read about him on some
fringe
> socialist/communist/anarchist site.
Friedman was not a total quack or an idiot at all. He said a lot that
made very good sense. But he forgot one minor detail: The ego will
destroy everything if left unrestrained. This desire to dominate out of
fear of being dominated must be held in check by a constitutional monarchy
checked by a body that represents the people or a well designed republican
form of government.
--
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
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