Foreclosure on Milton Friedman - Good Riddance!!!
Hey Folks,
The Uke Man comments below this excerpt from the New York Times Obituary – which includes George Duhbya Bush’s evaluation of Friedman as “a brilliant mind” with a “moral vision” (god told "Duh" to say that).
The entire obit is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/16/business/16wire-friedman.html?ex=1179291600&en=8018cc5dee1d38dd&ei=5087&excamp=OVBUmiltonfriedmanobituary
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Dead at 94
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 16, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94.
Friedman died in San Francisco, said Robert Fanger, a spokesman for the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation in Indianapolis. He did not know the cause of death.
"Milton's passion for freedom and liberty has influenced more lives than he ever could possibly know," said Gordon St. Angelo, the foundation's president and CEO, said in a statement. "His writings and ideas have transformed the minds of U.S. presidents, world leaders, entrepreneurs and freshmen economic majors alike."
In more than a dozen books and a column in Newsweek magazine, Friedman championed individual freedom in economics and politics.
His theory of monetarism, adopted in part by the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, opposed the traditional Keynesian economics that had dominated U.S. policy since the New Deal. He was a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board.
. . .
"
He has used a brilliant mind to advance a moral vision -- the vision of a society where men and women are free, free to choose, but where government is not as free to override their decisions," President Bush said in 2002. "That vision has changed America, and it is changing the world."
When Milton Friedman talked about “freedom”, he meant “freedom” much like that spread by George W. Bush – hence, a self-serving philosophy becomes a “moral vision.” As Friedman is quoted in the Times obituary: “Some of us have lived here quite comfortably all along.”
Hey Folks,
Milton Friedman was a BIG Deal and highly praised; so you’ve probably guessed that I thought he was a jerk. If so, you’re right.
Miltie is responsible for untold misery around this world, what with his clap-trap about “freedom.” He was what’s called a “Libertarian”; or, that is, a “blood-sucking, self-promoting, self-deluded, rationalizing vampire.”
I’ve never met an impoverished Libertarian. I’ve never met a working class Libertarian. Every Libertarian I’ve ever known or read/heard about is either loaded or convinced he soon WILL be loaded. “FREE” is a big word for them because they really believe that THEY should be FREE to continue being loaded and FREE to become even better rewarded for their application of their “individual responsibility” within the purview of the all-knowing Market and its sacred, invisible “hand” – and everyone else can go suck eggs.
Libertarians are against “government” in all its forms (it restricts Libertarians’ freedom to make money at the expense of everyone else). Well, they're against all its forms EXCEPT in regard to government’s police powers. Not surprisingly, they think THAT is a worthy governmental charge. Can you guess why?
It’s pretty clear. The police need to be there to protect the Libertarians from the masses of people they are screwing to maintain their narrow prerogatives (they'd say they're just exercising their “individual responsibility” – I guess).
Do you know the adage: “The poor can’t sleep for worrying over their next meal. The wealthy can’t sleep for worrying over someone stealing something from them”?
Here’s what Noam Chomsky wrote in 1999 on the topic of Friedman’s philosophy, neoliberalism:
“Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time – it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are permitted to control as much as possible of social life in order to maximize their personal profit. Associated initially with Reagan and Thatcher, for the past two decades neoliberalism has been the dominant global political economic trend adopted by political parties of the center and much of the traditional left as well as the right. These parties and the policies they enact represent the immediate interests of extremely wealthy investors and less than one thousand large corporations.
Aside from some academics and members of the business community, the term neoliberalism is largely unknown and unused by the public-at-large, especially in the United States. There, to the contrary, neoliberal initiatives are characterized as free market policies that encourage private enterprise and consumer choice, reward personal responsibility and entrepreneurial initiative, and undermine the dead hand of the incompetent, bureaucratic and parasitic government, that can never do good even if well intended, which it rarely is. A generation of corporate-financed public relations efforts has given these terms and ideas a near sacred aura.
As a result, the claims they make rarely require defense, and are invoked to rationalize anything from lowering taxes on the wealthy and scrapping environmental regulations to dismantling public education and social welfare programs. Indeed, any activity that might interfere with corporate domination of society is automatically suspect because it would interfere with the workings of the free market, which is advanced as the only rational, fair, and democratic allocator of goods and services. At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous service as they enact policies on behalf of the wealthy few.”
Milton Friedman was one of the more eloquent purveyors of this crap, and was generously rewarded by the blood-suckers he served.
He’s dead.
It didn’t matter how much value was placed on him by his god, the infallible Market. Even its invisible, infallible hand couldn’t save him.
The fucker is dead.
- Uke Man
The Uke Man comments below this excerpt from the New York Times Obituary – which includes George Duhbya Bush’s evaluation of Friedman as “a brilliant mind” with a “moral vision” (god told "Duh" to say that).
The entire obit is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/16/business/16wire-friedman.html?ex=1179291600&en=8018cc5dee1d38dd&ei=5087&excamp=OVBUmiltonfriedmanobituary
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Dead at 94
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 16, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94.
Friedman died in San Francisco, said Robert Fanger, a spokesman for the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation in Indianapolis. He did not know the cause of death.
"Milton's passion for freedom and liberty has influenced more lives than he ever could possibly know," said Gordon St. Angelo, the foundation's president and CEO, said in a statement. "His writings and ideas have transformed the minds of U.S. presidents, world leaders, entrepreneurs and freshmen economic majors alike."
In more than a dozen books and a column in Newsweek magazine, Friedman championed individual freedom in economics and politics.
His theory of monetarism, adopted in part by the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, opposed the traditional Keynesian economics that had dominated U.S. policy since the New Deal. He was a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board.
. . .
"
He has used a brilliant mind to advance a moral vision -- the vision of a society where men and women are free, free to choose, but where government is not as free to override their decisions," President Bush said in 2002. "That vision has changed America, and it is changing the world."
When Milton Friedman talked about “freedom”, he meant “freedom” much like that spread by George W. Bush – hence, a self-serving philosophy becomes a “moral vision.” As Friedman is quoted in the Times obituary: “Some of us have lived here quite comfortably all along.”
Hey Folks,
Milton Friedman was a BIG Deal and highly praised; so you’ve probably guessed that I thought he was a jerk. If so, you’re right.
Miltie is responsible for untold misery around this world, what with his clap-trap about “freedom.” He was what’s called a “Libertarian”; or, that is, a “blood-sucking, self-promoting, self-deluded, rationalizing vampire.”
I’ve never met an impoverished Libertarian. I’ve never met a working class Libertarian. Every Libertarian I’ve ever known or read/heard about is either loaded or convinced he soon WILL be loaded. “FREE” is a big word for them because they really believe that THEY should be FREE to continue being loaded and FREE to become even better rewarded for their application of their “individual responsibility” within the purview of the all-knowing Market and its sacred, invisible “hand” – and everyone else can go suck eggs.
Libertarians are against “government” in all its forms (it restricts Libertarians’ freedom to make money at the expense of everyone else). Well, they're against all its forms EXCEPT in regard to government’s police powers. Not surprisingly, they think THAT is a worthy governmental charge. Can you guess why?
It’s pretty clear. The police need to be there to protect the Libertarians from the masses of people they are screwing to maintain their narrow prerogatives (they'd say they're just exercising their “individual responsibility” – I guess).
Do you know the adage: “The poor can’t sleep for worrying over their next meal. The wealthy can’t sleep for worrying over someone stealing something from them”?
Here’s what Noam Chomsky wrote in 1999 on the topic of Friedman’s philosophy, neoliberalism:
“Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time – it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are permitted to control as much as possible of social life in order to maximize their personal profit. Associated initially with Reagan and Thatcher, for the past two decades neoliberalism has been the dominant global political economic trend adopted by political parties of the center and much of the traditional left as well as the right. These parties and the policies they enact represent the immediate interests of extremely wealthy investors and less than one thousand large corporations.
Aside from some academics and members of the business community, the term neoliberalism is largely unknown and unused by the public-at-large, especially in the United States. There, to the contrary, neoliberal initiatives are characterized as free market policies that encourage private enterprise and consumer choice, reward personal responsibility and entrepreneurial initiative, and undermine the dead hand of the incompetent, bureaucratic and parasitic government, that can never do good even if well intended, which it rarely is. A generation of corporate-financed public relations efforts has given these terms and ideas a near sacred aura.
As a result, the claims they make rarely require defense, and are invoked to rationalize anything from lowering taxes on the wealthy and scrapping environmental regulations to dismantling public education and social welfare programs. Indeed, any activity that might interfere with corporate domination of society is automatically suspect because it would interfere with the workings of the free market, which is advanced as the only rational, fair, and democratic allocator of goods and services. At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous service as they enact policies on behalf of the wealthy few.”
Milton Friedman was one of the more eloquent purveyors of this crap, and was generously rewarded by the blood-suckers he served.
He’s dead.
It didn’t matter how much value was placed on him by his god, the infallible Market. Even its invisible, infallible hand couldn’t save him.
The fucker is dead.
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Hi Tom
Enjoyed your posting about Friedman. Yes, you're right. All of his wealth couldn't keep him from becoming deceased! Sondra
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