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Thatcher on the other hand, well that's when the party starts.
How predictable.
Yes, Friedman is hardly likely to admit in public to supporting a brutal dictator is he? :rolleyes:
Wtf?!?!? :eek: Your interpretation of history is worthy of Stalin in its revisionism! To claim that Allende's socialism led (in some ill defined abstract way) to Pinochet is barking mad. Pinochet was quite clearly funded and supported by the US government and by people such as your hero Friedman.
The fact that you can dismiss the rape, torture and murder that was carried out in the name of "freedom" so lightly makes me quite sick tbh.
btw Dis, paraphrasing wikipedia so closely makes you look rather daft
Did I? I dunno, I took a look at the wikipedia page earlier as other than a brief lecture a while ago now I have not really studied Friedman but I am familiar with his basic premise that the freer the market the freer the people...And I have a basic understanding of his influence on the late, great Ronald Reagan and Lady Thatcher.
With the exception of foreign policy tbh I agree with much of the platform of the Libertarian Party. I don't support or dismiss torture, rape or murder, nor do I support persecuting the 'bourgeois' as some of your idols do.
Merely repeating it like some kind of mantra, won't make it anymore true.
But you do dis, you do very much support it. It's part and parcel of supporting Friedman and the economic reforms in Chile.
LOL! Who might my "idols" be, pray tell?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA.
I bet you wouldn't even credit Mao or Stalin with the frankly amazing economic work they didn't to thier countries, the building of industry and infrastructure, and you even overlook the damage Thatcher did to the British Industry.
You can be an odd bean at times.
The US uses a discretionary monetary policy/nominal anchor regime.
Well Europe must be behind the times then, the ECB follows a monetarist economic policy.