Milton Friedman on the "War on Drugs(TM)"

Milton Friedman Rocks!

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Milton's Inferno!

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Chumly wrote:

Milton Friedman Rocks!

hi chumly

On this issue, Friedman gets it right. But you don't want to read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" if you have a Freidman alter at home.

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Chumly wrote:

Milton Friedman Rocks!

True.
There is a wonderful quote about Milton Friedman I once heard.
I believe it goes something like: "People love to argue with Milton Friedman, especially when he's not in the room."

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blatham wrote:

Chumly wrote:
Milton Friedman Rocks!

hi chumly

On this issue, Friedman gets it right. But you don't want to read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" if you have a Freidman alter at home.

Cheap 'n nasty summation?

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Mexica wrote:

Chumly wrote:
Milton Friedman Rocks!
True.
There is a wonderful quote about Milton Friedman I once heard.
I believe it goes something like: "People love to argue with Milton Friedman, especially when he's not in the room."

Funny!

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Best quote about economics I've ever seen is in Stephen Levitt's 'Freakonomics' and goes something like:

Quote:

Religion is about the way things ought to be; economics is about the way things actually are...

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Chumly wrote:

blatham wrote:
Chumly wrote:
Milton Friedman Rocks!

hi chumly

On this issue, Friedman gets it right. But you don't want to read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" if you have a Freidman alter at home.
Cheap 'n nasty summation?

It's available at Chapters. You lazy bastard.

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blatham wrote:

Chumly wrote:
blatham wrote:
Chumly wrote:
Milton Friedman Rocks!

hi chumly

On this issue, Friedman gets it right. But you don't want to read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" if you have a Freidman alter at home.
Cheap 'n nasty summation?

It's available at Chapters. You lazy bastard.

....when you buy a book new, chances are as long as its not a new title, an out-of-print title, or something like that, it's going to lose 99% of its value when you leave the store with it. You might argue that the value lies in the reading of the book, but I would argue back that you can get that value for free at the library.

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Echoes of the modern war on drugs:

Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence was the first American to call chronic drunkenness a distinct disease.

He is best remembered for his efforts on behalf of temperance and his original work--called a "masterpiece"--was a radical challenge to the traditional dictum that drinking was a positive good.

http://library.uwaterloo.ca/seagrams/temper/sea2.html

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War on drugs and the war in Iraq until Petraeus took over: The same spell binding lack of situational awareness and the same inability to prioritize.

Four years to get our head out of our ass in Iraq. Fifty years and we still have not managed to do so in the "drug war". We used to be better at adjusting after it had become clear that we f*cked-up.

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Chumly wrote:

blatham wrote:
Chumly wrote:
blatham wrote:
Chumly wrote:
Milton Friedman Rocks!

hi chumly

On this issue, Friedman gets it right. But you don't want to read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" if you have a Freidman alter at home.
Cheap 'n nasty summation?

It's available at Chapters. You lazy bastard.
....when you buy a book new, chances are as long as its not a new title, an out-of-print title, or something like that, it's going to lose 99% of its value when you leave the store with it. You might argue that the value lies in the reading of the book, but I would argue back that you can get that value for free at the library.

PaperBackSwap Your source for swapping books online!

Clearly, that should have been "lazy and cheap bastard".

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blatham wrote:

Chumly wrote:
blatham wrote:
Chumly wrote:
blatham wrote:
Chumly wrote:
Milton Friedman Rocks!

hi chumly

On this issue, Friedman gets it right. But you don't want to read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" if you have a Freidman alter at home.
Cheap 'n nasty summation?

It's available at Chapters. You lazy bastard.
....when you buy a book new, chances are as long as its not a new title, an out-of-print title, or something like that, it's going to lose 99% of its value when you leave the store with it. You might argue that the value lies in the reading of the book, but I would argue back that you can get that value for free at the library.

PaperBackSwap Your source for swapping books online!

Clearly, that should have been "lazy and cheap bastard".

I'll take that as a time honored compliment.

Or looked at another, way the soft underbelly of your liberal intellectualism is exposed by your indirect critique of libraries.

Or looked at another way, it's time for a snack and a snooze.

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Chumly wrote:

blatham wrote:
Chumly wrote:
blatham wrote:
Chumly wrote:
blatham wrote:
Chumly wrote:
Milton Friedman Rocks!

hi chumly

On this issue, Friedman gets it right. But you don't want to read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" if you have a Freidman alter at home.
Cheap 'n nasty summation?

It's available at Chapters. You lazy bastard.
....when you buy a book new, chances are as long as its not a new title, an out-of-print title, or something like that, it's going to lose 99% of its value when you leave the store with it. You might argue that the value lies in the reading of the book, but I would argue back that you can get that value for free at the library.

PaperBackSwap Your source for swapping books online!

Clearly, that should have been "lazy and cheap bastard".
I'll take that as a time honored compliment.

Or looked at another, way the soft underbelly of your liberal intellectualism is exposed by your indirect critique of libraries.

Or looked at another way, it's time for a snack and a snooze.

Snack and snooze (and, for good measure, a snuzzle) completed. I'm a new man, my hair ablaze with spring blossoms and my thighs are all athunder.

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