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  • Will be on Faux: Brett Baier "The Korean War" Sunday night

    05/24/2023 10:25:42 AM PDT · by LS · 14 replies
    Self | 5/24/2023 | LS
    A few updates: I will appear on Faux News's "The Korean War" special with Brett Baier, Sunday night, May 28, 10:00. I know may of you are boycotting FAUX, and I respect that. Did this for an old filmmaking friend. Also, I have begun a MWF youtube show "Patriot's History," where I just read through "A Patriot's History of the United States" at 12 noon EST on the Wild World of History channel. Just started the Revolutionary War. We are 24 episodes in, all in the video archives. We are working to make "Patriot's History" in to a "John Adams/Sons...
  • The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits (Milton Friedman classic)

    04/18/2023 7:02:29 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 6 replies
    University of Michigan ^ | September 13, 1970 | Milton Friedman
    When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the "social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system," I am reminded of the wonderful line about the Frenchman who discovered at the age of 70 that he had been speaking prose all his life. The businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned "merely" with profit but also with promoting desirable "social" ends; that business has a "social conscience" and takes seriously its responsibilities for providing employment, eliminating discrimination, avoiding pollution and whatever else may be the catchwords of the contemporary crop of reformers....
  • Milton Friedman Speaks: Money and Inflation (B1230) - Full Video

    02/14/2022 5:47:50 AM PST · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 9 replies
    Free To Choose Network ^ | Mar 21, 2016 | Milton Friedman
    Inflation is blamed on many things. But it has only one cause: It is a monetary phenomenon. Inflation occurs when the quantity of money increases faster than the quantity of goods. Why does the money supply increase? Very often, it does so to enable the government to pay its bills without raising taxes. There's only one real cure for inflation. It is a cure that's easy to describe but difficult to apply: The government must reduce spending and print less money. The alternatives are both recession and double-digit inflation.
  • We Need a Little More Milton Friedman Right About Now

    11/23/2021 7:06:51 AM PST · by Kaslin · 13 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 23, 2021 | Stephen Moore
    Not long ago, resident Joe Biden made an offhanded comment that "Milton Friedman isn't running the show anymore." This president has seldom spoken more valid words. And that's where the trouble has begun. If you were to rate the three most influential economic minds of all time, you'd be hard-pressed to come up with a better trio than Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes and Friedman. I'm a little too young to have known Keynes or Smith, but I am old enough to have gotten to know Friedman, and I'm proud to have called him a friend. I used to have...
  • An end to tax withholding. Putting a stop to tax withholding would end a longstanding injustice and shift more power to the people, where it belongs

    10/19/2021 8:20:46 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10/19/2021 | Lloyd Billingsley
    Politicians have exploited the pandemic to override the rights of the people, cast themselves as heroes, expand government, and justify vast amounts of spending. Long before the pandemic, mechanisms to justify the government expansion were already in place. Consider, for example, the practice of tax withholding. Before World War II, notes Robert Higgs (Crisis and Leviathan), those Americans who owed federal taxes paid the following year in quarterly installments. That changed as the government geared up for World War II. Milton Friedman, then an economist at the Treasury Department, came up with a system of withholding workers' money from their...
  • Biden: "Raising taxes, studies show, will not slow the economy at all..will make it function better"

    04/05/2021 5:08:57 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 99 replies
    Ovation Eddie Two ^ | 6/4/21 | Joe Biden
    Biden: "Raising taxes, studies show, will not slow the economy at all..will make it function better"
  • Milton Friedman Crushes Man's 3 Questions like Dixie Cups

    09/24/2020 9:02:15 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 13 replies
    Youtube ^ | 22 May 2012 | Freedom To Choose Network
    In this classic Free To Choose Network footage (1978), Milton Friedman takes three questions from an audience member and crushes them all. The real problem is, that as we move from the local community to the state, from the state to the Federal government, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to control the mechanism we have established and that mechanism tends to control us. That was the great wisdom of the founding fathers of this country, of the people who wrote the Constitution. That constitution was designed to limit government’s powers in order to preserve the freedom of the individual,...
  • Drastic Coronavirus Lockdowns Are The Most Regressive Policies Since The Draft

    05/28/2020 8:57:34 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 10 replies
    The Federalist ^ | May 28, 2020 | J.T.Young
    The coronavirus lockdowns are America’s most regressive government actions since the draft. Even as liberals have quickly noted the virus’s disparate incidence, they have ignored the inequities of government responses. Ironically, these responses have been most regressive in states with the most “progressive” governments. In just four months, coronavirus has gone from takeoff to lockdown in the U.S. America’s first Wuhan virus case appeared on Jan. 21, and the first American died Feb. 12. California went into lockdown March 19, followed by New York the next day, and New Jersey on March 21. Two months later, America is only now...
  • Today's Quotefall Puzzle by Milton Friedman

    04/09/2020 5:30:20 PM PDT · by GOP Congress · 1 replies
    Self-Published | 4/9/2020 | Self-Published
    Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Milton Friedman. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Milton Friedman foresaw how we got into our this mess in which the reaction to the coronavirus will destroy the United States. To be blunt, the reaction to the coronavirus is MILLIONS of times MORE dangerous than the virus itself. I don't see a way out of this, but we must fight to the finish. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental...
  • Today's Quotefall Puzzle by Milton Friedman

    08/24/2019 7:12:30 AM PDT · by GOP Congress · 1 replies
    Self-Published | 8/24/2019 | Self-Published
    Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Milton Friedman. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Milton Friedman is the one of the most popular economist of the 20th Century among constitutionalists. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer grid) belowEach...
  • Today's Quotefall Puzzle by Milton Friedman

    07/31/2019 7:07:09 AM PDT · by GOP Congress · 1 replies
    Self-Published | 7/31/2019 | Self-Published
    Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Milton Friedman. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Born today on July 31, 1912, Milton Friedman was one of the greatest economists of all times. A champion of free markets, Friedman's analyses became the genesis of conservative and libertarian economic policy positions that remain to this day. If the Democrats control the US government again, though, rest assured they will destroy his legacy. A word to the wise! All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using...
  • Sen. Steve Daines Proposes Resolution Condemning ‘Disastrous Policies’ Of Socialism

    07/30/2019 8:54:06 AM PDT · by cowpoke · 18 replies
    THE WESTERNER ^ | 7/30/2019 | Frank DuBois
     Tristan Justice Montana Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) introduced legislation Monday condemning socialism as the 2020 Democratic presidential field pulls the Democratic Party further to the left in the midst of the campaign season. “A radical, socialist, far-left movement is growing across this country. And it has taken root as the new voice of the Democratic Party,” Daines said on the Senate floor Monday, taking aim at Democrats’ Green New Deal and “Medicare-for-All” proposals pushed by candidates on the presidential campaign trail. The proposed resolution would make it the official position of the U.S. Senate that Marxism and socialism are...
  • Today's Quotefall Puzzle by Milton Friedman

    05/01/2019 7:22:27 AM PDT · by GOP Congress · 1 replies
    Self-Published | 5/1/2019 | Self-Published
    Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Milton Friedman. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle.Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in economics, specifically for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy."All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in...
  • Andrew Yang and the “Freedom Dividend” (Universal Basic Income)

    03/21/2019 10:03:04 AM PDT · by OddLane · 27 replies
    Youtube ^ | 3/19/19 | Don't Walk, Run! Productions
    Presidential candidate Andrew Yang is campaigning on the platform of Universal Basic Income. He says everyone from MLK to Milton Friedman to Richard Nixon were for it. But were they? The answer won't surprise you.
  • Milton Friedman on Donahue - 1979

    03/10/2019 6:59:53 PM PDT · by Osage Orange · 28 replies
    YouTube ^ | Aug 26, 2009 | Milton Friedman
    Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate, promoting "Free to Choose" on the show Donahue.Worth watching....Donahue...actually conducted a decent interview.
  • Smart Growth and Green Growth – It is Not What You Think

    08/15/2018 12:04:59 PM PDT · by rktman · 3 replies
    ileanajohnson.com ^ | 8/15/2018 | Ileana Johnson
    Progressives (regressives) have been educating (indoctrinating) our American children for decades, inculcating (forcing) ideas such as political correctness (approved speech), globalism (one world government), global warming/climate change (redistribution of wealth), income equality (confiscation of wealth), resistance (anarchy), social justice (reverse discrimination), and tolerance (intolerance). Progressivism has generally succeeded in creating a few generations of snowflakes (melting babies given to tantrums) and college graduates whose degrees were expensive and useless. But nobody is complaining about higher education escalating costs and globalist indoctrination. Progressives have been urging their followers to make everything smart (U.N. compliant), to learn to deal with water shortages...
  • Attack of the Dean-Leaners The Libertarian Case for the Democrats

    10/14/2003 5:07:32 PM PDT · by RJCogburn · 26 replies · 110+ views
    Reason ^ | October 14, 2003 | Julian Sanchez
    I think I must have been ill that day. At some point, no one can say precisely when, libertarians apparently swore a feudal oath of fealty to the Republican Party. In response to an American Prospect article on libertarian disenchantment with the Bush administration, Reason's own former editor in chief Virginia Postrel explained that "real Dean voters don't like Jeff Flake. (I do.)" On the Crossfire view of politics, this makes sense: You pick your team and root for it, come hell or high water. The Platonic Real Dean Voter can't possibly hold any affection for a member of the...
  • IS THE MORTGAGE DEDUCTION GOOD FOR AMERICA?

    12/05/2017 8:10:58 AM PST · by DIRTYSECRET · 64 replies
    My friends it's government interference in the market. Why should some millionaire owner get a tax break when he can just buy something cheaper? If the idea is to make housing affordable ONE house is plenty of help. No need for help on a second home. Government grants for college make tuition rates go up. Won't the deduction do the same for housing? The Milton Friedmans out there will say it's bad for housing. I agree. WE start the discussion. The Yahoo article posted earlier was written by yahoos.
  • Modern Conservatism is an Utter Failure

    09/12/2017 7:52:26 AM PDT · by John Conlin · 46 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 9/12/2017 | John Conlin
    It is time to admit it; modern conservatism is almost a complete and utter failure. Today’s conservative movement seems to employ a lot of folks in pretty cushy jobs, prints some magazines, hosts some websites, publishes various books, and puts on conferences until the cows come home – for those who don’t know, conferences and seminars can be big time money makers. Sadly, its primary purpose seems to have become a self-propagating jobs program for those lucky, skilled, or connected enough to rise to the top.
  • Boston Globe Accidentally Reports That Raising the Minimum Wage Kills Jobs

    07/06/2016 5:19:36 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 15 replies
    PJ Media ^ | July 6, 2016 | Tom Knighton
    Many Americans are campaigning for a raise in the minimum wage. Even more Americans are struggling just to find jobs at any wage.Yup -- those two news items are related.While trying to present a case for the Massachusetts state legislature to approve a program that provides summer jobs to teens at non-profits and government agencies, an editorial at the Boston Globe accidentally explained why artificially imposed minimum wages kill job opportunities.I don’t think the Globe even realized it, either: The program provides money for YouthWorks, which pays the wages of 4,400 low-income teens in eligible cities who work for nonprofits...