Boehner was like Ryan, but drunk.
Boehner was nothing like Ryan. Ryan proposed cutting funding for "Meals on Wheels" programs for the elderly. Ryan believes in Milton Friedman's Free Market Capitalism. And Boehner know Friedman has been completely discredited, and that Friedman policies have higher prices, lower wages, increased poverty, and a financial windfall for the wealthy. Sound familiar?
Ryan didn't believe in shit other than Ryan, and its hilarious that you think Friedman has been discredited. If you can't see how federal manipulation of the markets has caused all the big problems then there is no talking to you about it.
You're all to willing to pin "all of the big problems" on one thing, when there are multiple causes. Federal manipulations of the markets is just ONE of them. But Friedman advised every President from Nixon to Clinton, and his failed ideas wages and prices finding a "natural level", which are fair to workers, consumers and corporations, is an utterly laughable.
The Forbes article linked called Friedman's idea that a corporation has no purpose other than to make money for its shareholders "the dumbest idea in the world", and said the Friedman. There is no question of the influence of Friedman in the last half of the 20th century, but his "trickle down" theories have been completely discredited. It is now said this his influence on US Presidents from Reagan onward have resulted in the inequities in both wealth and wages that are plaguing the US economy today.
The origin of 'the world’s dumbest idea’: maximizing shareholder value: The idea got going with an article by Milton Friedman in the New York Times in 1970. The economic consequences were disastrous.
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In this interview, Oliver Hart discusses his most recent paper "Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare Not Market Value." Hart says that profit maximization is important to shareholders, but it's not the only thing they care about.
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Joseph Stiglitz blames the ideas of fellow Nobel laureate economist, the late Milton Friedman, for contributing to toxic byproducts of capitalism in the US.
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