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in industry or agriculture,
have never come from centralized government.
-- Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom,
published in 1962, five years after
the Soviets launched Sputnik.
When it comes to analysis of current events in the news, I've discovered that one must enter every reading with a critical eye to what the ideologically faithful have altered, caused to be altered, or caused to be omitted altogether. And, oh boy, when it comes to blinders on and fixed, there's one group of professionals out there who are becoming a particularly nasty source of assumptions and pronouncements. I'm talking here, of course, about Uncle Miltie's Minions,
( the laissez faire economists. )
