{"id":29212,"date":"2021-10-24T19:49:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29212"},"modified":"2021-10-24T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:49:22","slug":"when-congress-busted-milton-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2021\/10\/24\/when-congress-busted-milton-friedman\/","title":{"rendered":"When Congress Busted Milton Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NSFWCorp <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsfwcorp.com\/dispatch\/milton-friedman\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When Congress Busted Milton Friedman (and Libertarianism Was Created By Big Business Lobbyists)<\/a> of November 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd yet \u2014 in the words of Larry Summers, &#8220;Any honest Democrat will admit we are all Friedmanites now.&#8221; Of course, there are no honest Democrats. And there are no honest economists. And these are the people who are framing our politics, the people who have told Greece and Spain they have no choice, and the people who today are making sure that the number one item on Obama\u2019s and Congress\u2019s agenda is cutting Social Security and cutting Medicare and cutting &#8220;entitlements&#8221; \u2014 and the only thing that divides the elites in charge of this mess is \u201chow much of these moochers\u2019 lifelines can we cut?\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I have long known that Milton Friedman was a con artist, but until this article, I did not fully understand what drove him.  The trouble is that his sham philosophy drove Barack Obama to be such a disappointing President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSFWCorp has the article When Congress Busted Milton Friedman (and Libertarianism Was Created By Big Business Lobbyists) of November 2012. And yet \u2014 in the words of Larry Summers, &#8220;Any honest Democrat will admit we are all Friedmanites now.&#8221; Of course, there are no honest Democrats. And there are no honest economists. And these are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29213,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29212\/revisions\/29213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}