Milton Friedman - Socialized Medicine

The most salient point MF makes in this speech is how private enterprises will collude with government for a minor short term advantage.

The problem is that it is logical for them to do so. If you do not do it, the next guy will, and HE will reap the short term advantage, and it will be to his terms.

The only counter is an educated populace that will punish the government for engaging in such deals. Alternately, GM's continued failures may be an example of people voting with their wallets.

30 years after this lecture Milton's prediction of socialized medicine has eerily come to pass in the U.S.

@subtlest1 I don't see anything eerie about it. It has been common knowledge that someting had to be done with healthcare. Especially when the country has been deindustrialized.

Those at the top of the liberal pyramid just want less people.

@FletchforFreedom I never heard of Silverman or Hume. So if you are suggesting something you will have to be clearer about it.

The data you provided on Jewish ownership in Germany was practically verbatim from what has been floating around the internet and can be found at Rense(dot)com written by Silverman based on the "research" of Hume. It is entirely without provenance.

@FletchforFreedom That sort of information will always be without proof.
There is no mystery that Hitler did have a effortless task at provoking germans against their jewish countrymen. I believe there has to be some kind of antagonism there.

It is certainly no secret that anti-Semitism has existed literally for millenia (just as racism and slavery have been a blight on this and other countries for centuries). What is completely without merit is the attempt by the likes of Silverman and Hume to pretend that there was some sort of justification for the underlying suspicion that made scapegoats of millions of people.

@FletchforFreedom Scapegoats or not, when a young jew gets the promotion when a young german of some other ethnicity is more qualified, takes its toll on jewish PR.

@FletchforFreedom It really does amaze me that so many jews are in controll of world finance. I believe another Hitler would get the same results. On a global scale that would be devistating to the Jewish community.