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All excellent thoughts, and as you say, the last sentence says it all."If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."
"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy."
"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes."
"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
Milton Friedman
And one of my favorites, and the one that I cannot read without thinking about R&J, shue, zombie, ram, da mouse and other socialist/marxist/commies. This one is aimed right at their unAmerican asses,
"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
The man is simply an freedom loving genius
Yep, 100 TODAY. Propably explains why Rush was playing the recording that Ron Hill heard today.Milton would of been 100 today.
If the poor were greedy they wouldn't be dependent on a system that creates complacency at the expense of others.