Sunday, April 20, 2008

Free to Yous

Uncle Milty



Last year El Jefe sent me the entire updated Free to Choose DVD set after I openly pined for it.  That's why El Jefe gets his own jet fighter in the Barn Army.  Here's the troubling part.  I finally got around to excerpting one of the great moments, where Milton Friedman debates a bunch of mostly liberal economists.  That's good. Nobody who's serious about arguing free market economies should miss it.  But, as soon as I posted it in Live Leak, it occurred to me that someone commented that the entire series was available on the web.  Did I forget something as important as that?  Evidently.  The entire series, here, on the Idea Channel..  Bookmark it.

4/20/2008 12:18:00 PM 8 Comments

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Kim du Toit said...

What I want to know is how Milty manages to stop laughing every time the socialists open their mouths.

4/20/08, 1:08 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...

My thoughts gravitated more towards pulling out a sawed-off 12 gauge pump and cleaning house.

4/20/08, 1:13 PM
ricpic said...

The religion of free trade can be just as destructive as the religion of taxation and regulation.

4/20/08, 3:20 PM
Anonymous said...

Couldn't disagree more. Maybe you're referring to a country, like the US, that pretends to have a free economy, but with layers and layers of regulations that muck up the natural order of things. Watch the first episode on Hong Kong for example.

4/20/08, 4:11 PM
ricpic said...

K and A of F,

Note the use of the term religion. Anything can be pushed too far. Limited tariffs served the U.S. very well historically and should be used again, given that we live in a world full of nations that take full advantage of our guard being down while their guards stay up.

4/20/08, 4:53 PM
SoylentGreen said...

Friedman nails that little pinko Harrington every time he opens his mouth. By the end Mickey Mouse Harrington really looks like he wants to call in Karl Marx (or cry) - and Milton almost says so. Damn 18th century socialist. He must have graduated from Yale. (oh - he did).

Socialism is the opiate of the ignorant.

4/20/08, 7:41 PM
Anonymous said...

Tariffs are evil.

They should only be tolerated as a means of taxation, and should be applied evenly.

There should be no such thing as "most favored nation". Either you can trade with them, or they are the enemy.

4/20/08, 11:42 PM
Anonymous said...

Heh Heh Heck, I think Turkey, Chile, and the Cocos Islands should be 'most flavored'......Huh? What?.....Favored?..Oh.............Nevermind.

4/21/08, 5:31 AM

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