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Posted on 04/13/2007 4:14:45 PM PDT by wagglebee
Great piece, fun to read, thanks for posting it!
The late Great Milton Freidman vs her thighness, No Comtest Milton in a KO.
What an interesting post! Bravo! BTTT
Government Spending & Taxes
“Other developed countries…are more committed to social stability than we have been, and they tailor their economic policies to maintain it.”
— First Lady Hillary Clinton writes her affinity for Europe’s
cradle-to-grave welfare policies
LOL Europe gave us Hitler, Stalin and Mussilini(sp) because they are more suited to stablity.
John
Health Care “The campaign goes on to bring health care in America out of the free market and into the protective custody of government. Those who brought us the postal service and Amtrak are anxious to provide medical service of the same high caliber.” —Ronald Reagan, as cited in “Reagan In His Own Hand”
“We just can’t trust the American people to make these types of decisions. …Government has to make these choices for people.” —Hillary Clinton circa 1993, speaking to Rep. Dennis Hastert on the issue of who should control the allocation of money in her health care reform plan
The Face of Evil
“Let us be aware that while [the Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.” —Ronald Reagan, from his famed “Evil Empire” speech of 1983.
“I believe in evil, and I think that there are evil people in the world.” —Hillary Clinton, in 1993, stating her opinion not of the terrorists who had just bombed the World Trade Center, but of those who opposed her health care reform plan
Economic Freedom
“Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.” —Ronald Reagan, as cited on RightWingNews.com
“The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.” —Hillary Clinton
Freedom of the Press
“I’ve always believed a free press is as vital to America as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. A probing, responsible press not only keeps the public informed about what’s going on in government, it can keep a watchful eye out to uncover corruption, waste, or mismanagement.” —Ronald Reagan, “An American Life”
“We’re all going to have to rethink how we deal with the Internet. As exciting as these new developments are, there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gate-keeping function.” —First Lady Hillary Clinton, in 1998, days after the Monica Lewinsky story was reported on the Drudge Report
Taxes
“We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one. ... But we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.” —Ronald Reagan, in his 1981 speech to the National Alliance of Business
“We’re saying that for American to get back on track, we’re going to cut [the Bush tax cuts] short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” —Hillary Clinton, in a 2004 fundraising speech to wealthy liberals in San Francisco
Bipartisanship
“Our two-party system has served us well over the years, but never better than in those times of great challenge when we came together not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common cause.” —Ronald Reagan, in his second inaugural address
“You have got to hand it to them, these people are ruthless and they are relentless.” —Sen. Hillary Clinton, just a few months after 9/11, giving her opinion of Republicans
Leadership
“A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough.” —Ronald Reagan, as cited on RightWingNews.com
“It’s important to have core principles and values, but if you’re going to be active in policy and politics, you have to be a realist.” —Hillary Clinton
Big Government
“Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.” —Ronald Reagan, as cited on “The American Experience: Reagan”
“We can’t afford to have that money go to the private sector. The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.” —First Lady Hillary Clinton, in 1993, regarding health care reform
Religion
“Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” —Ronald Reagan, speaking at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in 1984
“I have to confess that it’s crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian from time to time.” —First Lady Hillary Clinton, “joking” in a speech with religious leaders in 1997
Blaming America
“We are not the cause of all the ills in the world. We’re a patient and generous people.” —Ronald Reagan, accepting the Republican presidential nomination in 1984
“I pledge allegiance to the America that can be.” —Hillary Clinton, reluctant to say the Pledge of Allegiance, according to Chris Matthews
Core Beliefs
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.” —Ronald Reagan, from his famous “A Time for Choosing” speech in 1964 on behalf of Barry Goldwater
“At least Reagan had some core beliefs. They defied logic, but at least he had them.” —Hillary had some trouble getting her super-size brain around Reagan’s outlandish beliefs: lower taxes, smaller government; peace through strength and the defeat of communism
Imagination
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” —Ronald Reagan, from his “A Time for Choosing” speech in 1964
“The fact of the matter is, I’ve always been a Yankees fan.” —Senate candidate Hillary Clinton, soon after launching her campaign in 1999, and ignoring prior public statements about growing up as a Cubs fan in Chicago
Thanks, I had never read that.
One Hitlery quote I would have liked to seen displayed... speaking of healthcare and the affordability for small business employers: “I can’t worry about all the under-capitalized small businesses out there!”
As Milton would no doubt say (much more eloquently than I can): “Those undercapitalized small businesses out there are responsible for about 80% of job growth in this great country and they create wealth for the owners while satisfying the needs of the customers and providing employment for millions... This is called capitalism.”
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Bump. Thanks for posting this.
Ping
I miss him.
The social conservatives of today wouldn’t like a big chunk of what Milton Friedman believed.
The book “Free to Choose” written with his wife Rose is widely used in education. It teaches that economic and personal freedom must go hand in hand.
He came from the libertarian branch of the original conservative movement along with Barry Goldwater.
Sometimes now refered to as the western “leave me alone” school of conservatism.
(Contrasted with the social theocracy school of conservatism.)
If I was a social conservative, I’d do my homework before citing Friedman and Goldwater, because they were both social libertarians in belief.
Where is that Hillary quote from? I’d like to add it to my class website, with the article as well.
Thanks!
This was great.
Friedman vs Hillary is hardly a fair fight. I would have a better chance of beating einstein in a debate on atom splitting than Hillary would have in an economics debate with Milt.
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I got this in an email forward, can’t vouch for their accuracy, but some are pretty funny:
> Hillary Clinton said that her childhood dream was
> to be an Olympic
> athlete. But she was not athletic enough. She said she
> wanted to be an
> astronaut, but at the time they didn’t take women. She
> said she wanted to go
> into medicine, but hospitals made her woozy. Should
> she be telling people
> this story? I mean she’s basically saying she wants to
> be president because
> she can’t do anything else.”
> —Jay Leno
>
> “Well, the big story — Hillary Clinton will be
> running for president in
> 2008. You know why I think she’s running? I think
> she finally wants to see
> what it’s like to sleep in the president’s bed.”
> —Jay Leno
>
> “Top Democrats have mixed feelings about Sen.
> Hillary Clinton running
> for president. Apparently, some Democrats don’t like
> the idea, while others
> hate it.”
> —Conan O’Brien
>
> “In a fiery speech this weekend, Hillary Clinton
> wondered why President
> Bush can’t find the tallest man in Afghanistan .
> Probably for the same
> reason she couldn’t find the fattest intern under the
> desk.”
> —Jay Leno
>
> “Former President Bill Clinton said that if his
> wife, Hillary, is
> elected president, he will do whatever she wants. You
> know Bill Clinton —
> when he makes a vow to Hillary, you can take that to
> the bank.”
> —Jay Leno
>
> “Did you know Bill and Hillary Clinton were born
> under the same sign?
> Know what sign? ‘For Sale .’”
> -Jay Leno
>
> “A student from the University of Washington has
> sold his soul on eBay
> for $400. He’s a law student, so he probably doesn’t
> need it, but still,
> that’s not very much. Today, Hillary Clinton said,
> ‘Hey, at least I got
> some furniture and a Senate seat for mine.”
> -Jay Leno
>
> “Hillary Clinton said today that she wants
> legislation to allow all
> ex-felons to vote. See, this way all the Clinton ‘s
> former business partners
> can vote for her in 2008.”
> —Jay Leno
>
>
>
> “Hillary Clinton’s 506-page memoirs have come out.
> So much of her
> personality shines through, that in the end, you,
> too, will want to
> sleep with an intern.”
> - Craig Kilborn
>
>
> In Hillary Clinton’s new book ‘Living History,’
> Hillary details what it
> was like meeting Bill Clinton, falling in love with
> him, getting married,
> and living a passionate, wonderful life as husband and
> wife. Then on page
> two, the trouble starts.”
> - Jay Leno
>
>
>
> “In the book, she says when Bill told her he was
> having an affair, she
> said “I could hardly breathe, I was gulping for air.
> ‘ No, I’m sorry,
> that’s what Monica said.”
> - David Letterman
>
>
>
> “Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York
> , announced that she
> has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of
> the President of the
> United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly
> disappointed. He is
> crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a
> two-impeachment family.”
> - David Letterman
>
>
>
> “Last night, Senator Hillary Clinton hosted her
> first party in her new
> home in Washington People said it was a lot like the
> parties she used to
> host at the White House. In fact, even the furniture
> was the same.”
> - Jay Leno
>
>
>
> “Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President
> Bush for breaking his
> campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions,
> saying a promise made, a
> promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded
> that Bush spend the
> night on the couch.”
> - Craig Kilborn
>
>
>
> “CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most
> admired woman in America .
> Women admire her because she’s strong and successful.
> Men admire her
> because she allows her husband to cheat and get away
> with it.”
> - Jay Leno
>
>
>
> “Hillary Clinton is the junior senator from the
> great state of New York .
> When they swore her in, she used the Clinton
> family Bible. . .the one
> with only seven commandments.”
> -David Letterman
Hillary’s not fit to be a Charmin substitute for Milton Friedman.
excellent wagglebee. thx. :)
Great find - bttt.
Here’s a website with some classic Hillary stuff related to her nationalizing the healthcare industry:
http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/wiki/Sam_Smith/
And the quote I was searching for is at the bottom put in more context within this paragraph:
The stakes would eventually become so high that a number of the biggest insurers—including CIGNA, Aetna and Metropolitan Life—would leave the industry-wide Health Insurance Association of America. Five of the largest insurance companies formed something called the Alliance for Managed Competition. In this new game one of the first targets of ‘managed competition’ was the smaller insurance companies that now account for nearly half of the health underwriting business. Said managed competition advocate Lynn Etheridge, “Ninety-nine percent of the insurance companies are going to be wiped out because they’re only prepared to be insurance companies.” Mrs. Clinton, sounding like a 1980s takeover lawyer, said, “It’s going to be a Darwinian struggle. Only the best and fittest of them will survive.” Similarly, when asked how small businesses were meant to cope with the added costs of her plan, Mrs. Clinton replied, “I can’t go out and save every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America.”
“We can’t afford to have that money go to the private sector. The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.”
— First Lady Hillary Clinton
Great stuff.
See, that’s why The Daily Show, Leno and those SNL and Mad TV political skits with President Bush and John Kerry from 3 years ago were funny.
They were equal opportunity abusers.
The Fox half hour news hour bombs because it has an agenda.
Apparently Tom was limited by his editor in terms of how much room he had to put the entire article. If he had to juxtapose every Hitlery Socialist quote against every Friedman free market supply side quote he would probably still be writing today. And there aren’t enough trees to kill to print enough paper to make his point.
How about:
“The other day the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits, and I want to put them in a strategic energy fund, that will begin to fund alternative smart energy alternatives and technologies that will begin to actually move us towards the direction of independence.”
—Hillary Clinton speaking about the “obscene” oil company profits two months ago
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j1PfE9K8j0g
“Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.”
—Milton Friedman
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