This Michael Moore hasn’t yet discovered bacon cheeseburgers, but he has discovered liberal illogic and self-righteousness.

Via Big Hollywood.

From Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose” (1980), Part VIII: “Who Protects the Worker?”

In January 1975, a typist in the Environmental Protection Agency was so consistently late for work that her supervisors demanded she be fired. It took 19 months to do it.

Granted, this show is almost 30 years old. But I’m willing to wager it’s only worse now.

The inheritance of talent is no different (from an ethical point of view) from the inheritance of other forms of property– of bonds, of stocks, of houses, or of factories. Yet many people resent the one, but not the other.

From “Free to Choose” (1980), Part V: “Created Equal.”

I have just started watching the series “Free to Choose,” and it is genuinely fascinating and entertaining. The best part– which I was not expecting– is Milton Friedman’s endearing warmth, curiosity and joie de vivre. You wouldn’t guess that this man practices the ”dismal science.”

In this clip from Part IV: “From Cradle to Grave” (1980), he discusses the deleterious effects of the welfare state:

One of the things I hold against the welfare system most seriously is that it has destroyed private charitable arrangements which are far more effective, far more compassionate, far more person-to-person in helping people who are really, through no fault of their own, in disadvantaged situations.