{"id":2148,"date":"2005-06-06T15:37:28","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T22:37:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-06T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T22:37:28","slug":"listen-to-milton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/listen-to-milton\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Milton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate and <a href=http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;safe=off&#038;as_qdr=all&#038;q=+%22milton+friedman%22+site%3Ainstapundit.com&#038;btnG=Search>neolibertarian<\/a> <a href=http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?as_q=&#038;num=10&#038;hl=en&#038;btnG=Google+Search&#038;as_epq=milton+friedman&#038;as_oq=&#038;as_eq=&#038;lr=&#038;as_ft=i&#038;as_filetype=&#038;as_qdr=all&#038;as_occt=any&#038;as_dt=i&#038;as_sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dynamist.com%2Fweblog%2F&#038;safe=off>favorite<\/a> Milton Friedman gives his prot\u00e9g\u00e9s something to ignore:<\/p>\n<ul>Friedman supported Bush&#8217;s first-term candidacy, but he is more accurately libertarian than conservative and not a reliable Bush ally. <\/p>\n<p>Progress in his goal of rolling back the role of government, he said, is &#8220;being greatly threatened, unfortunately, by this notion that the U.S. has a mission to promote democracy around the world,&#8221; a big Bush objective. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;War is a friend of the state,&#8221; Friedman said. It is always expensive, requiring higher taxes, and, &#8220;In time of war, government will take powers and do things that it would not ordinarily do.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>The rest <a href=http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2005\/06\/05\/ING9QD1E5Q1.DTL>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=http:\/\/www.justinlogan.com\/justinlogancom\/2005\/06\/war_and_liberty.html>Justin Logan<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate and neolibertarian favorite Milton Friedman gives his prot\u00e9g\u00e9s something to ignore: Friedman supported Bush&#8217;s first-term candidacy, but he is more accurately libertarian than conservative and not a reliable Bush ally. Progress in his goal of rolling back the role of government, he said, is &#8220;being greatly threatened, unfortunately, by this notion that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}