Posted by
Michael on Sunday, November 19, 2006 6:40:42 PM
They can win elections, they can take back Congress, but the negativity doesn't go away. It is the backbone of modern liberalism, a negative, pessimistic attitude.
Here at Townhall.com, there have been various articles
praising the life and achievements of economist Milton Friedman, the father of free market ideas.
At
David Goldstein's blog, however, he credits Friedman as simply the father of comment spammers and pornographers, among other insults:
Famed economist Milton Friedman died this week, and in pondering how
best to eulogize the Andy Warhol of post World War II economics, I was
reminded of another recent death — that of the comment spam that
plagued HA on and off for most of the past two years. For if Friedman
is a father figure to free market advocates everywhere, then spammers,
comment or otherwise, are surely his rightful heirs — the logical
online manifestation of a selfish and mean-spirited ideology that looks
to Friedman for its economic scholarship and Ayn Rand for its moral
philosophy (such as it might be.)...Our nation’s Calvinist ethos survives today in a cult of the market
that seems to equate individual economic prosperity with the will of
God. But it must be remembered that the unfettered “free market” these
ideologues passionately advocate is in theory amoral at its very best,
and often deeply and disturbingly immoral in practice.
I think it would be best if you judged who Friedman was by researching him yourself. For starters, here is the famous video where he explains how a simple pencil is able to unify peoples across the world: