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1 posted on 04/19/2014 8:25:45 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
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I always thought I, pencil was a Milton Freidman article. I know I heard him read it.


2 posted on 04/19/2014 8:41:29 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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It took a lot of link-following to finally find the location of the film. You can find it here.

It truly is a wonderful film and deserving of awards for the way it tells the wonder of free markets and free men.

3 posted on 04/19/2014 9:15:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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But were they lead to choose the movie, or was it just a pointed gesture?


5 posted on 04/19/2014 9:46:04 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Although the Left can certainly point to it and deceptively say, “See? King Obama TOLD you ‘You didn’t do that by yourself!’”... but hopefully the main point any LIV might take from it is that no one person, or board, or government, could ever make all those millions of decisions that are required to make that pencil. They can only get in the way. Nothing more, nothing less.


7 posted on 04/19/2014 9:53:42 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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For years I read this essay with high school AP Writing students.


8 posted on 04/19/2014 10:00:14 AM PDT by jobim (.)
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Here is Leonard E. Read's original essay. Fascinating reading.

This should be required reading by every student suffering through the Common Core curriculum.

10 posted on 04/19/2014 10:32:11 AM PDT by upchuck (Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)
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Dyn-O-Mite Video, very charming.
Written by Leonard Read, 1958.
Often cited by Milton Friedman.
Now beautifully illustrated by The Competitive Enterprise Institute.
12 posted on 04/19/2014 1:22:58 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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