thinkfree41 mowi:

Sep 25, 2011 - Perfect logic for imbeciles only.

doom032 mowi:

Oct 1, 2011 - Horrible quality of video and audio.

The727stpete727 mowi:

Oct 9, 2011 - Lol you're blaming the republicans for spending? The democrats have perpetually tried to take money out of the hands of individuals and spend more and more on the inefficient bureaucratic nightmare that we have today. So fuck you for wanting bigger government and bigger waste. Its people like you that vote for the destruction of the country i live in.

cesar333 mowi:

Oct 9, 2011 - Your mind is gone if you think for a minute that you will ever get rid of government waste. It goes hand in hand. Do you really think that voting for someone because the have an (R) next to their name will change any of it? Both parties are to blame. The republicans are just as gulty of spending and big government just as the dems are. Its just that they have different versions of government. the past 40 years dems and reps have made goernment and spending bigger.

cesar333 mowi:

Oct 9, 2011 - Do you know that we have economic physicist working for the government. Working on theory and principle. Friedman is brilliant when talking about microeconomics but when you talk about government spending, you enter into a another theory. Wasteful spending goes somewhere. it doesnt vanish into thin air. Someone is always getting rich, or poor.

The727stpete727 mowi:

Oct 9, 2011 - I agree that both parties are to blame and both have done lousy jobs in office. I would consider myself far right, liberal in the 19th century meaning of the word. But if you had to blame one party for trying to increase government exponentially and higher taxes it would definitely be the democrats. The republicans have no intellectual leadership and the democrats are a corrupt and demagogic party.

ohidalgoe mowi:

Oct 9, 2011 - but those children if well educated will became good members of society, if bad educated because of funds reduction they will be just watching American idol all day and getting obese.

skelruck mowi:

Oct 16, 2011 - How is it simple, rational statements like Friedman's recieve comments like this?

rafnezden1968 mowi:

Oct 17, 2011 - I'm sorry I don't remember any reaction of mine to these video. I deed have one of my friends bring an acquaitance of his to my house. We were drinking beer and he went to watch YouTube, it does not surprice me at all that he would make such a rude remark to M Friedman. I apologize for him because he's stupid and ignorant and because he used my computer. The remark as written 1 week ago is not mine but of a gues of mine who will never enter my house again. Greetz

skelruck mowi:

Oct 18, 2011 - LOL friends do dumb things sometimes. I have read remarks from others before though and I just prefer a more civilized debate...even on youtube.

o0Dystopia0o mowi:

Oct 19, 2011 - Our current 'education' madrasas have been very careful to mis-educate our children regarding civics, finance, economics. As Marxism is both an economic theory/religion and social theory/religion (as well as a political religion), honest capitalism is at a distinct disadvantage vs this insanity belched into the minds of generation after generation.

fububalla mowi:

Oct 30, 2011 - I wonder what Mr. Friedman would think about the multi-trillion dollar bailouts within a span of a couple years?!?

MrUnconvinced mowi:

Nov 16, 2011 - So where is the successful education system anywhere in the world which is mainly funded by private money/school fees paid by individuals? Not South Korea, not Finland (the top systems in the world), not any part of Western Europe or North America. All successful education systems are mainly funded from tax. All successful economies depend upon education systems mainly funded by tax, even in the most capitalistic, free enterprise cultures. Friedman hypothesis disproved.

LetitRideOut87 mowi:

Nov 25, 2011 - then please tell me why private schools almost always outperform public schools?

HomelessOnline mowi:

Dec 7, 2011 - - Any private school that's not funded by the government, but I'm not sure how you define "successful." 'Tis true, private schools don't educate the majority of the people in America, but you've hardly disproved Friedman's hypothesis.

MrUnconvinced mowi:

Dec 7, 2011 - My comment was about education systems, not individual schools. No developed country has left schooling to the free market and expected parents to pay for their children's education. Giving parents "choice" is not truly a free market system if the costs of schooling are still met by the taxpayer. Friedman went to a state funded school... what's he complaining about?

MrUnconvinced mowi:

Dec 7, 2011 - I'll go with the PISA standards to define successful. Perhaps you could suggest how you think Friedman's hypothesis could be disproved?

GenuinelyInquisitive mowi:

Dec 27, 2011 - With all due respect to Dr. Friedman, this all depends on the individual spending someone else's money on themselves or someone else as being apathetic to the impact that their expenditures have on the money source. I support universal healthcare and education, but I also view the source of the revenue for these endeavors (public funds) with great respect and would seek to get the most out of them. I simply CANNOT be the only person who feels that way.

GenuinelyInquisitive mowi:

Dec 27, 2011 - @GenuinelyInquisitive It's the apathy that is the problem to address. Voter apathy it seems to me is the main problem. A keenly politically engaged public which takes its political role as voters seriously will drive the agendas of representatives who would otherwise do as they please toward genuine public interests, just as an individual who offers to purchase dinner for another using someone else's money will do so much more carefully if they have to face the money source face to face.

LeoAutodidact mowi:

Jan 23, 2012 - It's only SIMPLE, because it's TRUE! Friedman was a great educator because he was good at finding clear and relevant ways to illustrate "complicated" truths of "The Dismal Science," Economics. Only Academics could find a way to make something as fascinating and compelling as MONEY, into the most boring course on campus. It's almost as if they were delibeeratly TRYING to get people to disengage. Rodney Dangerfield's "BACK TO SCHOOL" showed this wonderfully well.

MackEelWayne mowi:

Mar 22, 2012 - Friedman 2012

BlueJames19 mowi:

May 6, 2012 - Zombie Friedman 2012