Posted on 01/14/2014 10:09:48 PM PST by dennisw
The blunt truth about greed and freedom that was delivered over 30 years ago
Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:19 PM EST
On radio this morning, Glenn played a portion of a 1979 interview between Phil Donahue and Milton Friedman, in which Friedman offered a very well-articulated argument in favor of minimizing the role of government in a free market system as a means of creating political and social freedom. It is Friedman’s eloquent delivery of what could be considered a complex theme that Glenn was most concerned with.
“[We have to be] more than alert and knowledgeable,” Glenn said. “We have to be able to explain to our fellow citizens what raises our eyebrows, what makes us even more alert, and what we have found in our knowledge… Milton Friedman did a great segment on the Donohue show years ago on greed. Listen to what he said.”
Watch Friedman and Donahue debate the power of greed:
“That is a beat-down of everything that’s being said right now,” Glenn said. “[But] nobody is articulating it that way. He asks the question: Where in the world does greed not rule?”
What makes Friedman’s delivery so unique is his ability to discuss harsh realities, while holding fast to his principles. Considering the lack of honesty in our world today, Glenn questioned why Friedman is often characterized as a villain.
“Nobody is talking about real world stuff. Nobody is saying the truths that need to be spoken. He spoke truth,” Glenn concluded. “It was clear. It wasn’t about politics. It was about basic principles. Milton Friedman should be the most popular guy on every campus because this guy is talking truth.”
link to the video of Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show saying this
Liberals can’t handle the truth.
""It never occurred to me at the time that I was helping to develop machinery that would make possible a government that I would come to criticize severely as too large, too intrusive, too destructive of freedom. Yet, that is precisely what I was doing. [My wife] Rose has repeatedly chided me over the years about the role that I played in making possible the current overgrown government we both criticize so strongly."
the federale income tax was instituted in 1913
Your right. It was the mandatory withholding that Friedman helped institute in 1943.
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Sorry.
btw Paul Volker is very solid but he advised Richard Nixon on closing the gold window in 1971.
Wartime is when you are in survival mode. All governments run up debt then. You cannot fault Friedman for that advice he gave in 1943
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TRY TO DO BETTER, SMALL GRASSHOPPER....
Was he involved in the 1983 decision to tax Social Security for the first time, with no inflation adjusted increases in the amount of income exempted. Note: it was $25,000 for singles, and $32,000 for marrieds. No increase in 30 years. Now all my SS is taxed. Not so 10 years ago.
This is the horrible lie that the “other half” of new world order pushes.
Unrestrained capitalism.
NWO presents us with 2 choices: communism or capitalism.
One is unrestrained state control (in truth financed by them out of public view)
The other is unrestrained capitalism (allowing them to conduct business with no laws to restrain them).
It’s a false choice.
The choice to make is for legitimate free enterprise, i.e., restrained by laws.
But whose laws ? New world order hates and rejects the Bible, and its minions scream when one suggests basing a legal system on the Bible, God’s Law Word. New world order wants to make their own laws as they see fit.
The Bible differentiates between legitimately working to provide for your household - and taking what is not rightfully yours. Wanting to take what is not rightfully yours is greed, called covetousness in the Bible. It’s straightforward to understand regarding your neighbor’s goods. But it also applies to simple gluttony; things like not selling that stock when it reaches the market price you had planned - you get greedy, i.e., covetous of more profit - and you hang on to it, and the price drops. You can’t decide whether to accept the lower profit or hang on and hope to see it go up again. Then it goes even lower, below what you paid. You got greedy.
Greed is fairly well identifiable to most people; they instinctively know that greed is wrong. The Bible tells us that God’s law is written on our hearts.
It is true that technological advancements were made often by greedy men; that does not prove that greed is good, because technical progress does not confer righteousness. Many evil and wicked men have made technological progress whilst committing all sorts of wicked acts.
It is a man’s responsibility to provide for his household and to be a good steward over what God blesses him with, so he should be pursuing wealth TO THAT END. That is obviously different from pursuing wealth to satisfy one’s gluttony.
Some will be rich, others poor, but this is not an indicator of righteousness: “the race is not to the swift” (Ecclesiastes). We put forth our best efforts, but ultimately outcomes are God’s will, for us to accept. Because God is Creator, God is sovereign over his creation.
Sometimes we see evil people prosper and good people remain poor. Again, Ecclesiastes is a good book to read on this topic, and Job is as well; there’s nothing new in questioning “why ? why ?”, it’s all been questioned and answered before.
New world order has persisted through the centuries: the old banking families, spread into the European aristocracy, spread to America.
They know about sin very much, and temptation. They tempt everyone else to give in to sin, “greed is good”. Don’t feel guilty about being greedy. Go ahead, take what you want.
Where are those angels Friedman asks. Yes, Milton, we know the doctrine of original sin, we know that all people are sinners and we know that you’re twisting this information by leaving out other information. There are people - imperfect as they are - that do good in the eyes of God - yes, even in the Old Testament. Are they perfect, no. But don’t try to drag everyone down into sin with a lie that says its actually good for everyone to be greedy.
Milton, you know that saying such a thing will tend to make people money crazy. Take what they haven’t rightfully earned - as well as spend more than they should, since “greed is good”. Meanwhile, financial elites are patient investors in for the long run that can take advantage of the “sheeple’s” greed. The elites have their own level of greed; notably the desire to sell to the government at outrageous prices and manipulate people so it continues to borrow from elites and tax the sheeple to feed that greed, taking what is not rightfully theirs. Which meshes in well with “survival of the fittest”.
No, moron, he did not create the income tax. And, BTW, it's Friedman, not Freedman.
The Sixteenth was passed when Friedman was a babe in arms.
However, it is true that, during WWII, he invented the withholding tax, which Congress passed in 1943. However, he realized he'd made a substantial negative contribution, as he later acknowledged:
Far more important, without a system of current collection, it would have been impossible to collect the amount of income taxes that we collected during the war. At the time, we concentrated single-mindedly on promoting the war effort. We gave next to no consideration to any longer-run consequences. It never occurred to me at the time that I was helping to develop machinery that would make possible a government that I would come to criticize severely as too large, too intrusive, too destructive of freedom. Yet, that is precisely what I was doing.
I remember Rush once saying conservatives hate it when you lie to them; liberals hate it when you tell them the truth.
Friedman created the Withholding Tax....while working under FDR. Before then...you paid your income tax at the end of the year...now, it is removed from your paycheck
Friedman is no Free Market advocate. He very much supported the current Free Trade system devised by John Maynard Keynes at Bretton Woods, where the UN and its organizations got to dictate the trade laws. Also, Friedman supported govt control of the money supply....the only difference between Friedman and Keynes was the amount of money circulated
If people would study history, and not failed liberal economists...they would learn more about Friedman. He is no Free Market guru...he was merely Trotsky to Keynes’ Stalin
What troubles me about Friedman and his Fan Boys is that he was no Free Market person...his main Monetarism theories required the government to control aspects of the economy
Also, Friedman supported many of the Free Trade deals that not only stripped America of its wealth...they also surrendered sovereignty to foreign entities...allowing non-American groups to decide our economic laws. There is nothing Free Market in letting the WTO (a UN organization) dictate our trade...this is what Friedman supported...
And what every ignorant Free Trader supports
And what Barack Obama, Al Gore, Hilary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, et al., support
I love it when Uncle Miltie destroys know-it-all college kids. This is just one example I’ve seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7w16OemF_w
This should be required viewing for every high school kid.
Milton Friedman - The role of government in a free society
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LucOUSpTB3Y
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