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  • What is the money the state takes to construct itself and defend itself from other states? How would a state exist if it wasn't spending other people's money? If you have a state is it not inherent that people's money is going to be be spent some way or another by other people, as in the people who are running the state (supposedly in the US with permission)? Then shouldn't we decide what to spend it on? And if we are going to decide what to spend it on do we spend it on the people or the state?

  • @GenghisCohen1

    Where are you going with this? Where does anyone say to abolish government and government spending?

  • @OffTheGlass87 Nowhere.

  • "They were given freest and fullest range" at the expense of the people already living here. The Athenians were bullying their neighbor states. There have been no golden ages unless you read the victor's account alone. 

  • Very good video thanks a lot !

  • WELFARE STATE is a MANIFESTATION of the Failure of Capitalism.

  • @mba2ceo Again, you keep making typos. That should read:

    "[The] WELFARE STATE is a MANIFEST FAILURE. Try Capitalism."

    History yields no other possible conclusion.

  • Is it just me or is there a subliminal picture at around the 3:40 mark?

  • The reason Friedman focuses in spending (the finality of money) instead of gain (the source of money) is to keep the principle of "individual spent" intact: Money is produced in social grounds, it is not produced out of thin air by wise individuals. If you don't analyze how money is produced, why wasting time saying social goods and welfare comes from another person's money? By the way, "natural state of man" is a blatant philosophical and biological fallacy.

  • @code933k *yawn* Damn you're full of your own shit.

  • Friedman is such an arrogant fuck...

    wipe that smirk of your face. You know stuff. Thats cool, but don't be such an arrogant fuck!!!

  • @Supaaafreak What an amazingly arrogant comment!

  • Excellen interview!!!! This is fundemental human knowledge!!!

  • There used to be more listening and alot less shouting in questions of politics and the economy

  • Instead of the poisonous, utopian Marxist propaganda promulgated across every college university through professors and textbooks, this video should be shown just to at least give kids a single, alternative view to the prevailing notions of the time

  • New World Order happens to be a distraction

  • 5:22 set a limit to gov't spending...ok - are we clear - dems/liberals - the road to hell is paved with good intentions - misery and tyranny for everyone, thanks libs

  • I wonder if Friedman ever connected the evils of the Federal Reserve system to the coercive strong armed tactics of the Fed's IRS.

  • This interviewer is so stupid that it is painful for me to watch.

  • i used to dislike MF... only in recent years have a realized just how great he truly was...

  • it is the sciences not the markets that have freed us from tyranny

  • @anthonygador Well thank you for your empty statement. Care to fill that vacuous theory of yours with some actual proof?

  • @PoetsLight

    agriculture, antibiotics, materials science and so on lift the tyranny imposed by the natural state of man; the suffering we inherit by inhabiting a planet cruelly indifferent to starvation, disease and disaster. The free market provides the means of FAIR distribution of goods and services but the sciences advance such goods and services available.

  • Firstly, the reason gov't spending is so high is that 95% of the money in the US is borrowed at interest. The most influential reason the US sought independence was because they wanted to control the supply of their money.

    Secondly, what he says is true, flawed ideas of good people destroy the ability of actual good to be done - unfortunately, his ideas are the epitome of this.

    Freedom has come to mean profiteering at the expense of, and on the backs of others. Exactly what he sought to avoid.

  • I enjoy watching Dr. Friedman speak every time I watch him. What a wonderful intellect. His advocacy for both economic and political freedom is sorely missed.

    I'm curious about the date of this video. I'd sooner think it was from 1967 rather than 1977. By 1977 there were very few B&W broadcast still being made. Are we looking at some sort of B&W backup or was the broadcast really done in B&W at this late date?

    Great video. Post more if you have them.

  • wow finally a video with 0 dislikes

  • I listen to Friedman when I want to feel smarter.

  • Politicians do not spend money for noble causes, they spend to buy themselves re-election, pure and simple.

  • Amazing! This was one of the most moving and powerful videos I have ever seen. I have to do my research on Mr. Friedman, he is one of a kind in only the best of ways.

  • nigger means human now

  • from 6:20 till the end . . .

    The folks who think this man is just a cold hearted capitalist pig need watch that section a few times and really reflect on what he's saying.

  • There is NO MORE ROOM to write in the US... what a prophetic video this is. I'm so afraid for our future

  • human history...in a nutshell....to be precise in just 9 minutes..this man is a genius

  • What bizarre interview did you watch as it bears no resemblance whatsoever to ANYTHING that Dr. Friedman ever said in his life. He didn't "justify" anything; he simply pointed out that the historical norm has been tyranny and misery and, further, that the exceptions to that rule wherein the lives of the common people have been improved have been those where liberty (including economic liberty) have been most prized.

    His examination of human society is dead on.

  • @larrylife4life

    "in this interview, he literally justified the genocide of the native americans"

    WTF?!?

  • Thank you very much for uploading this!

  • The welfare state isn't a noble concept.

  • did u miss the point?

  • The welfare state is also simply a means to an end, simply a rather static means asking for more and more cash when it fails. The end is the alleviation of poverty which admittedly existed and admittedly was terrible in many cases before the welfare state. Although this is even worse now, since the end was "equality" and fundamentally as long as people are willing to steal from some to give to others it will contintue being noble.

  • Initially ,Welfare is noble in theory, helping the sick the poor ,the elderly but it is the end result which you are looking at

  • austrians r best

  • Listen to his word about Golden Ages ending. Could it be more relevant to today's political environment? Profound.

  • @Joem734 funny that considering he's the fucking architect

  • @Joem734 the futures gonna suck

  • Thanks for posting this! Keep 'em coming!

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