Oooops, I forgot in the midst of this busy day (DIAL UP WARNING) . . . .

[HughBeaumont]

7/31/2012: Happy 100th Birthday, Uncle Milton!!!







I invited some people, but for some reason, they had other plans.













I'm sure all of these people celebrated with their quiet voices.

Oh, and I got you a couple of cards . . .





CUTE designs, no?

Thanks for all that you and your followers have done these past 4 decades.







Schmuck.

[hunter]

1. Excellent.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. VERY well done. I am aghast.

[hifiguy]

3. When the history of the 20th century is written

some hundred-plus years from now - assuming humanity survives that long - Milton Friedman will be lumped with A. Hitler, J. Stalin, P. Pot, and Mao as one of the century's great aberrations of psychotic and barbaric inhumanity.

[HughBeaumont]

5. And the worst part about it is, it didn't have to BE that way.

The corporations HEISTED the U.S., and it was the worst of this man's policies . . . policies that simply shredded the citizens' progress of every Latin American country it was tried in . . . that led the way. We're STILL not veering from it. That's the most fucking GALLing thing about it all . . . Milton Friedman's failed experiment continues to this day, and it's seemingly never going to END.

[freshwest]

7. +1

[hifiguy]

8. Friedman was a truly a monster.

He wore a suit, held the title of professor and was never elected to any office, but the poison of his ideas - which can be summarized briefly: greed is good and should be enabled over any competing consideration - lives on to ravage billions of human beings around the world. The evil that men do lives on long after they are dead.

[Brickbat]

4. K&R. Good stuff, Mr. Beaumont

[Chorophyll]

6. K&R. Well done.