Why it isn't Necessary to "Throw the Bums Out"

Circa 1977.

"The same congressman will vote for a different thing if he thinks that's politically profitable." Any doubts? Read / watch these:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/12/fred-upton-a...
http://www.breitbart.tv/democrats-lead-fight-against-obamacare-mandate-that-t...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49031.html
http://www.breitbart.tv/tim-pawlenty-cap-and-trade-support-was-a-mistake/

Milton Friedman (June 26, 1912 November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is best known among scholars for his theoretical and empirical research, especially consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy. A global public followed his restatement of a political philosophy that insisted on minimizing the role of government in favor of the private sector. As a leader of the Chicago School of economics, based at the University of Chicago, he had a widespread influence in shaping the research agenda of the entire profession. Friedman's many monographs, books, scholarly articles, papers, magazine columns, television programs, videos and lectures cover a broad range of topics in microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic history, and public policy issues. The Economist hailed him as "the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century possibly of all of it".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_friedman

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[TheSpacecadet78]

He's 100% right. We have the government we deserve. If we want our government to be different we need to deserve it. If we really didn't want a nanny state, we wouldn't have one. But ask your average American who pays lipserrvice to wanting lower taxes and smaller government if they also want Social Security and Medicare done away with, then see what they say. As long as most Americans want the Nanny State "blanky", we will continue to have exactly that.

[captcool420]

@HisokanoOkami If in that analogy you are the broken clock, then I agree.

[lector0003]

love the shoulder shrug at 0:09 .... it means Friedman is getting ready ...

[gshooting]

With Romney the likely GOP nominee, this comment from Friedman takes on extra importance. Romney doesn't have a conservative bone in his body, but it will be politically profitable for him to pander to the base of the GOP and hopefully do the right thing: cutting spending, taxes etc.

[tehatemachine]

@KidsandKarma you're over analysing it. It's actually very simple. 

[KidsandKarma]

He's right, but too right. It isn't just political profit they want - it's hard cash MONEY & Sex & Power. A great many elected officials are Psychopaths - they cannot feel or care for other people, but only for their own increased power. They write the laws to favor themselves & strike deals w the Exec Branch; pretty soon the checks & balances necessary for survival of the people are gone.

[donmyrick]

@TheSpacecadet78

I really don't think we have the government we deserve. We have a government that those in the the media who "want to make difference" have manipulated us into electing. We are flying blind folks.

[bodinian]

I think this is the most Liberal thing he ever said. Don't change the politicians, change the system. America was founded under that premise. I guess Friedman wasn't all that bad.

[AEF091]

I could not agree with him any more.

[aldoreshgaramok]

Heh, never thought Alinsky and Friedman could ever agree on anything, but here, they have.

Men never do the right thing for the right reason. They do the right thing for the wrong reason.

[NYzwolf]

Change the game and not the players?

How about we toss the board and stop playing altogether!

Everyone who wants land, go fight someone for it, if you win you own the land.

Survival of the fittest.

[235RB]

@stebecool lol. ok.