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<blockquote data-quote="LightningCrash" data-source="post: 1316290" data-attributes="member: 4278">You&#039;re arguing against a man you don&#039;t know anything about and you haven&#039;t bothered to read or listen to anything he said. You don&#039;t even know what positions of his you disagree with.Take this:You say you support &quot;made in the USA&quot; products, but you are wrong. China&#039;s manufacturing base is rising, and the USA&#039;s is declining.Maybe when you understand why that criticism is errant, you will understand why your own vocalized criticism of Friedman is (thus far) without any merit or weight whatsoever.Was Friedman wrong when he advocated lower taxes?Was Friedman wrong when he railed on government spending?Was he wrong when he said &quot;I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse&quot;?Was he wrong when he asserted that &quot;With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves&quot;?Maybe you could address what he actually said instead of what you were told that he believed in.So far you&#039;ve only said &quot;Oh it doesn&#039;t matter what he really said... just assume that he&#039;s wrong&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LightningCrash, post: 1316290, member: 4278"] You're arguing against a man you don't know anything about and you haven't bothered to read or listen to anything he said. You don't even know what positions of his you disagree with. Take this: You say you support "made in the USA" products, but you are wrong. China's manufacturing base is rising, and the USA's is declining. Maybe when you understand why that criticism is errant, you will understand why your own vocalized criticism of Friedman is (thus far) without any merit or weight whatsoever. Was Friedman wrong when he advocated lower taxes? Was Friedman wrong when he railed on government spending? Was he wrong when he said "I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse"? Was he wrong when he asserted that "With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are [i]opposed[/i] to it when it comes to themselves"? Maybe you could address what he [b]actually[/b] said instead of what you were told that he believed in. So far you've only said "Oh it doesn't matter what he really said... just assume that he's wrong" [/QUOTE]

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