Two Classic Liberals and Francis Fox-Piven

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We’re still arguing about these issues today. This clip from over thirty years ago features Thomas Sowell, Milton Freidman, and Francis Fox-Piven.

In this clip from the 1980 Free To Choose, socialist Frances Fox Piven tangles with Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell. Sowell, in particular, is incisive with his discussion of “process” versus aspiration — concluding that whatever the purported social goals, liberty suffers.

Francis Fox-Piven argues for equal outcomes as well as equal opportunity. She also claims that people are born into classes in society. A typical socialist, Fox-Piven is best known for her “topple the system” radical theories on over-loading everything at once.

Sowell takes her to task with emphasis. Today he is America’s leading economist, in my opinion.

Friedman says the greatest inequality is by the use of special government privileges. The greatest freedom lies in a system in which unequal results may be obtained. Freidman was the lead economist at UIC’s “Chicago School”, which is an off-shoot of the original Austrian “Classic Liberal” school of thought.

 

So without further ado, here’s the short clip:

 

 

Rich TAkes! March 19, 2012

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Rich TAkes!

~ a collection of links I found interesting lately ~

Drug-resistant white plague lurks among rich and poor

this is scary, scary stuff!

Silver Coins for the Silver Haired

this should be required reading in every high school government and economics class

Supermodel Elle Macpherson Loves Obama: ‘I’m Socialist – What Do You Expect?’

I appreciate your honesty, Elle. Not that I really care about your opinion.

Gingrich Charge of a Socialist America Confirmed

Obama Is Not A Keynesian, He’s An American! – YouTube

This is both hilarious and horrifying

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Quote of the Day

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“Our national purpose is to unleash the full talent and genius of the individual, not to create mass movements with the citizenry subjecting themselves to the whims of the state.”

~ Ronald Reagan ~

Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 168.

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1875 Supreme Court Decison, Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 168.

The pertinent text of the decision, concerning the issue of what constitutes a “natural-born” citizen, is as follows:

The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”

Note the key words, “all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also”

I have been slammed by some old friends simply by posting this text from a Supreme Court decision, which would indicate that our current POTUS does not satisfy our US Constitutional requirements of “natural-born” for the office of President, irregardless of where he was born. Obama’s father was a Kenyan, and as such was a British subject at the time of Obama’s birth.

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