Posted
6:35 AM
by Gene
Mr. My Business is My Business, part of the right-wing division of the herd of independent jernalistic minds,
confirms in his busy typing, and especially in his last graf...
Small wonder that a conservative wit has surmised that the wisdom of economists varies inversely with their heights. Milton Friedman, 93, is 5 feet tall....what I said
a few days ago: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman are all-purpose all-seers who tell only the truths you want to hear. Galbraith told the truth of socialism and state control; Friedman tells the truth of greed and moral
laissez faire. Their acolytes swoon to their respective truths. The rest of us just swoon.