"The Trucker" <mikcob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.05.15.03.02.11.404065@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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 have no quarrel with the sociologic argument. For all his insightful
brilliance into dissections of the dynamics of the Depression, for
example,
Capitalism and Freedom is remarkable for its simplicity and
straightforward
analysis of economic behavior.
Of course people are going to act in their own economic best interests.
And, as you say, of course they will continue to do so well past the point
that their current and future creature comforts are met.
JG
>
> --
> "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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