re: #281 HappyWarrior

My greatest annoyance and I’m not even a socialist is how every single economic conservative thinks that those who want a more involved government in the economy want us to be Venezuela. Scandinavia is their model and those countries do a good job providing for their citizens. Now if the conservatives want to debate the fact that those countries have much smaller economies than ours and thus can do things like that, that’s one thing but I wish these people would shut the hell up about how every country that is more socialist than we are is some kind of hellhole and that every or even most socialist wants the U.S. to be Venezuela.

Years ago I got into an argument with Mr Chile the leader of the Chicago Boys Milton Friedman over Chile. I pointed out that he always said that free markets are a cornerstone of a free society. I then asked him if that was so why was Chile under Pinochet a police state. He kept saying, “You have to understand that Chile is a special case.” and I replied, “A special case for WHAT? Proving that you’re wrong about market aboslution?”. He continued to act as your typical communist conservative pushing the mantra that conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed…

Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand and James M. Buchanan are the Holy Trinity of why America is fucked up to the point that it will self destruct.