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of course you speak bullshit, ace. your freidman orthodoxy is the quintessence of it.
and it doesn't matter that you don't like the spin on it that i give---the rationale for it is present in freidman's bullshit gospel of feudal capitalism or why the public should stay in its place and watch as the Captains of Industry tank the entire system. because they know best. so dont be presumptuous and second guess them. just shut up. go watch tv or something. think about shopping. try to be a rational actor.
there's a considerable percentage of the wealthy in the united states that don't buy your freidmanny bullshit either. i know some excedingly wealthy people. they are all old-line conservatives; the sort of patrician conservatives you can talk with who think that people like you are not only loons but you're bad for business. and there's the faction of the same economic class that funnels money toward the democrats. and man others to the left of them.
at any rate, the german situation is better than the american. they aren't saddled with a grotesque national-security state and a reactionary political class for self-proclaimed Feudal Masters who think that the most effective resource allocation possible is in technological systems that kill people in great number, prisons and cops and surveillance. advancing goals of full employment--not "rational"---interferes with the Calculations of the Masters. but there's a lot of pressure from the debt crisis (made worse by ineffective and socially catastrophic neo-liberal remedies courtesy of the EU and imf) and they've figured out that a way around the neo-liberal calls for "austerity" (except in police surveillance and military spending of course) is to raise taxes. so they're asking for it.
if loons reciting chapter and verse of milton freidman et al were not for reasons incomprehensible prominent ideological players in the united-of-states, such actions would not even be surprising.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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