Milton Friedman & Thomas Sowell vs. A Welfare Administrator

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• milton friedman
• thomas sowell
• welfare
• common sense capitalism

[ramonpastorius]

Friedman is right, but he is omitting a lot of facts. Yes, it is well-known that millionaires such as Morgan and Carnegie outpoured a huge amount of their fortunes in charities, universities, and educational/artistic funds. However, the millionaires donated money only after having destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of laborers. They did so just to improve their public image and, as Carnegie did, "win the gates of heaven." Did charity fix the life of laborers?

[CommonSenseCap]

@ramonpastorius If someone can believe private charity doesn't have a noticeably positive impact on people, can they possibly argue that government spending can do the same?

[1965ace]

Too much Welfare is a bandaid that becomes a crutch, that becomes a way of life, that becomes a right, that destroys generations, that will destroy the nation. People are like water , they take the path of least resistance.

[lima33ful]

@MortimerTheClueless I really hope that was sarcasm. If it wasn't I would say to you, come and get my income, but bring some friends. You'll need'em.

[deezynar]

They cut her off, I wanted to hear her response to Friedman's statement that the 19th century private charity system worked better than the state run welfare systems.

[emaleroland]

@MortimerTheClueless No, they won't. Your Socialist view is broken. Only a free society can have equality, meaning equal opportunity. Then it's based upon effort. In a Socialist society, there is no incentive to work when the elite at the top are going to redistribute wealth, which means they take from those who produce and give to those who don't. It is not up to the government to decide who gets what. It is up to the market. Competition brings excellence. Socialism brings poverty.

[jaderman500]

The Nazis employed a simple tactic that is going on here...DIVIDE AND CONQUER. If a country is unified then there is no way Hitler could have done what he did through economics, idealism, and dogmatic talk...REALLY listen to this woman

[EODtchwon]

tell them to stop spreading there legs for douchbag men.

[MortimerTheClueless]

There is one way to eliminate the existence of the bottom 20%: give everyone the same income, and make the economy totally democratic. Then, everyone will be equal.

[Pantalaimon345]

@GRANDMASTERKANE You fail to realize that the only reason industrialists could get away with those abuses was because the government sided with the industrialists. Government should have no role whatsoever- neither siding with the employer or employee. Why is everyone stupid in America? Gov educated. Why so low employment (not only reason)? minimum wage. Who would ever want to pay so much for an inexperienced worker? You should study (unbiased) history to see what I am talking about.