The King Is Dead

Who will stem the tide of minimum wage activists?

Who will stop the price ceiling and price floor socialists?

Who will stifle those who stifle ingenuity?

Who will step forward and explain to us why the free markets need to be truly free?

Who will we look to for sanity in an insane world of economics?

There is always the video. And this is one that is well worth the 30 minutes.

4 month old H/T.

11 thoughts on “The King Is Dead


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    November 17, 2006 at 8:44 am
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    Oh come! Bourgeois mouthpieces are a dime-a-dozen. One less doesn’t mean the world will end.


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    November 17, 2006 at 9:01 am
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    Shows how little you know. Milton Friedman was a University prof. You know universities, right Todd? They are the breeding ground of left leaning philosophy.

    Ironically, Milton Friedman called himself a Liberal and not a Conservative.


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    November 17, 2006 at 11:44 am
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    Friedman calling himself a “liberal” is not ironic at all, when you know the original meaning of the word, which represented liberty, and not socialism. Friedman explains this within the first few minutes of the video posted above.


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    November 17, 2006 at 6:26 pm
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    My favourite quote is his view on social program supporters.

    “I admire them for the softness of their heart, but unfortunatley it often extends to their heads as well.”


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    November 18, 2006 at 3:52 am
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    Glad he’s dead.


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    November 18, 2006 at 3:59 am
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    Anon (#5) How’s the bottom of that brown beer bottle coming?


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    November 18, 2006 at 1:46 pm
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    Universities as breeding grounds of left-leaning profs?

    Good God, where do you think right-leaning profs come from? (And I assure you, given what I’ve heard about the political climate in several American universities, the right-wingers eg conservatives and liberals far outnumber any to the left of left liberalism). Universities just reflect broader political trends in the greater society.

    Read Horowitz’ stuff with a bit more factual seasoning.

    Quite right, Janet. Friedman harkened back to the 19th century when liberalism really had a progressive character (which, to a large degree, is spent now). Unfortunately, it’s mania for free markets and free labour couldn’t be sustained without government aid, a point many Friedmanites aren’t happy to have discussed.


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    November 18, 2006 at 2:51 pm
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    Todd, don’t misquote me. I said Universities were breeding grounds for left leaning philosophy, not profs.


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    November 19, 2006 at 12:52 am
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    Ooo, that narcissism of small differences . . . .


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    November 19, 2006 at 1:12 am
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    Todd, it’s not narcissism if your words set up a strawman argument which is beaten down in the next sentence.

    Your exact words:

    “Universities as breeding grounds of left-leaning profs?

    Good God, where do you think right-leaning profs come from?”


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    November 19, 2006 at 1:13 am
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    Addendum to my #10 point. Right leaning PHILOSOPHIES rarely, if ever, come from Universities but are more than likely formed wherever someone opens their first paycheck and sees the taxes.

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