[Choose Ye This Day]

Transcript of 4th episode in Milton Friedman's landmark 1980 PBS series.

Featuring a VERY young Thomas Sowell.

[Choose Ye This Day]

"Free to Choose" PING.


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[Gay State Conservative]

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[Choose Ye This Day]

"Trying to do good with other people's money simply has not worked, the welfare system is rotting away the very fabric of society."

Amen to that.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Episode can be viewed here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4556043875821956991&q=free+to+choose

[Old Professer]

Reading all that gives one an appreciation for editors.

[Daytyn71]

O'BANNON: When the family fails, when the private sector fails to create jobs at a fast enough rate you find that people are unemployed and drift into needing help in order to exist and the welfare system was created in the '30's to do exactly that. When the private sector, essentially, failed we have the development of a welfare system, and it's not corrupting society, it is taking what society _ institutions have left behind: The family breaking up, the economy not expanding fast enough, the health system failing, the educational system not doing its job. We have untrained, unskilled people looking for jobs in a highly technical society or jobs that pay so low that people cannot in fact live at a decent level of humanity. I see the welfare system not corrupting, but in fact taking the remains and attempting to help people live in dignity.

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Again, the mantra of modern Liberalism - It's America's fault. These people on welfare are victims. We have a duty to provide for them however long.

Give me a break. Modern Liberalism essentially has created a class of people who hard-working tax payers pay to stay home, who are subsidized for life. There is no incentive for these people to better their lot, to work, to provide for their families when the system takes care of their every need.

Where does the gov'ts responsiblity end and personal responsibility take over. I was under the belief that the US had defeated Communism.

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[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Featuring a VERY young Thomas Sowell.

I followed the Free to Choose series assiduously back then. We didn't have FR or talk radio, and conservatives were isolated and made to feel like kooks because our views simply were not represented in the media.

They certainly isolated Thomas Sowell back then, too. I believe that I first learned of his existence by seeing him on Free to Choose. At any rate, about then I started reading his books, and got the library to get his earlier books for me on interlibrary loan.

Sigh . . . back in the Carter Administration, when things were going to heck in a handbasket. And then came Reagan. If only Reagan had nominated Thomas Sowell to SCOTUS instead of Sandra Day O'Connor . . .