{"id":2164,"date":"2005-06-15T00:16:48","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T07:16:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-15T00:16:48","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T07:16:48","slug":"milton-friedman-blasts-us-interventionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/15\/milton-friedman-blasts-us-interventionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Friedman Blasts US Interventionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2005\/06\/05\/ING9QD1E5Q1.DTL\">an interview earlier this month in the <I>San Francisco Chronicle<\/I><\/a>, Milton Friedman speaks on many issues (enough to madden some of our readers).  <\/p>\n<p>Buried in the interview is a gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><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;<B>War is a friend of the state<\/b>,&#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;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview earlier this month in the San Francisco Chronicle, Milton Friedman speaks on many issues (enough to madden some of our readers). Buried in the interview is a gem: 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-2164","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\/2164","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}