Milton Friedman is a Stud

I found this old video of Milton Friedman making an astounding explanation for the morality of freedom and capitalism:

It’s worth it to watch the whole thing, but just take one outstanding excerpted quote:

I think there has been one underlying and basic fallacy in this whole set of Social Security and welfare measures. And that is the fallacy, this is at the bottom of it, the fallacy that it is feasible and possible to do good with other people’s money. Now that view has two flaws: If I want to do good with other people’s money, I first have to take it away from them. That means that the welfare state philosophy of doing good with other people’s money, at it’s very bottom, is a philosophy of violence and coercion. It’s against freedom because I have to use force to get the money.

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Categories: News and Politics 

New Slideshow

Several people had been complaining about the lack of stuff on my MySpace page. To be honest, MySpace has kind of been a joke to me, but lately I have started to get messages from old friends that I had long lost contact with and I’ve started to see it’s value. In any case, I decided to add some info and put together a little slide show of some of my favorite pictures. I figured I shouldn’t leave my true home without the same vain posting, so here it is:

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Categories: Photography