Listing of transcripts and videos of “Free to Choose” episode 4 – From Cradle to Grave on www.theDailyHatch.org

In the last few years the number of people receiving Food Stamps has skyrocketed. President Obama has not cut any federal welfare programs but has increased them, and he  has used class warfare over and over the last few months and according to him equality at the finish line is the equality that we should all be talking about. However, socialism has never worked and it has always killed incentive to produce more. Milton Friedman shows in this film series below how so many people get caught in the “Welfare Trap.” Friedman also gives a great solution to this problem in the “negative income tax.” I am glad that I had the chance to be studying his work for over 30 years now.

In 1980 when I first sat down and read the book “Free to Choose” I was involved in Ronald Reagan’s campaign for president and excited about the race. Milton Friedman’s books and film series really helped form my conservative views. Take a look at one of my favorite films of his:

Friedman Friday:(“Free to Choose” episode 4 – From Cradle to Grave, Part 1 of 7)

Volume 4 – From Cradle to Grave
Abstract:

Since the Depression years of the 1930s, there has been almost continuous expansion of governmental efforts to provide for people’s welfare. First, there was a tremendous expansion of public works. The Social Security Act followed close behind. Soon other efforts extended governmental activities in all areas of the welfare sector. Growth of governmental welfare activity continued unabated, and today it has reached truly staggering proportions. Travelling in both Britain and the U.S., Milton Friedman points out that though many government welfare programs are well intentioned, they tend to have pernicious side effects. In Dr. Friedman’s view, perhaps the most serious shortcoming of governmental welfare activities is their tendency to strip away individual independence and dignity. This is because bureaucrats in welfare agencies are placed in positions of tremendous power over welfare recipients, exercising great influence over their lives. Because people never spend someone else’s money as carefully as they spend their own, inefficiency, waste, abuse, theft, and corruption are inevitable. In addition, welfare programs tend to be self-perpetuating because they destroy work incentives. Indeed, it is often in the welfare recipients’ best interests to remain unemployed. Dr. Friedman suggests a negative income tax as a way of helping the poor. The government would pay money to people falling below a certain income level. As they obtained jobs and earned money, they would continue to receive some payments from the government until their outside income reached a certain ceiling. This system would make people better off who sought work and earned income. This contrasts with many of today’s programs where one dollar earned means nearly one dollar lost in welfare payments.

Volume 4 – From Cradle to Grave
Transcript:
Friedman: After the 2nd World War, New York City authorities retained rent control supposedly to help their poorer citizens. The intentions were good. This in the Bronx was one result.
By the 50’s the same authorities were taxing their citizens. Including those who lived in the Bronx and other devastated areas beyond the East River to subsidize public housing. Another idea with good intentions yet poor people are paying for this, subsidized apartments for the well-to-do. When government at city or federal level spends our money to help us, strange things happen.
The idea that government had to protect us came to be accepted during the terrible years of the Depression. Capitalism was said to have failed. And politicians were looking for a new approach.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a candidate for the presidency. He was governor of New York State. At the governor’s mansion in Albany, he met repeatedly with friends and colleagues to try to find some way out of the Depression. The problems of the day were to be solved by government action and government spending. The measures that FDR and his associates discussed here derived from a long line of past experience. Some of the roots of these measures go back to Bismark’s Germany at the end of the 19th Century. The first modern state to institute old age pensions and other similar measures on the part of government. In the early 20th Century Great Britain followed suit under Lloyd George and Churchill. It too instituted old age pensions and similar plans.
These precursors of the modern welfare state had little effect on practice in the United States. But they did have a very great effect on the intellectuals on the campus like those who gathered here with FDR. The people who met here had little personal experience of the horrors of the Depression but they were confident that they had the solution. In their long discussions as they sat around this fireplace trying to design programs to meet the problems raised by the worst Depression in the history of the United States, they quite naturally drew upon the ideas that were prevalent at the time. The intellectual climate had become one in which it was taken for granted that government had to play a major role in solving the problems in providing what came later to be called Security from Cradle to Grave.
Roosevelt’s first priority after his election was to deal with massive unemployment. A Public Works program was started. The government financed projects to build highways, bridges and dams. The National Recovery Administration was set up to revitalize industry. Roosevelt wanted to see America move into a new era. The Social Security Act was passed and other measures followed. Unemployment benefits, welfare payments, distribution of surplus food. With these measures, of course, came rules, regulations and red tape as familiar today as they were novel then. The government bureaucracy began to grow and it’s been growing ever since.
This is just a small part of the Social Security empire today. Their headquarters in Baltimore has 16 rooms this size. All these people are dispensing our money with the best possible intentions. But at what cost?
In the 50 years since the Albany meetings, we have given government more and more control over our lives and our income. In New York State alone, these government buildings house 11,000 bureaucrats. Administering government programs that cost New York taxpayers 22 billion dollars. At the federal level, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare alone has a budget larger than any government in the world except only Russia and the United States.
Yet these government measures often do not help the people they are supposed to. Richard Brown’s daughter, Helema, needs constant medical attention. She has a throat defect and has to be connected to a breathing machine so that she’ll survive the nights. It’s expensive treatment and you might expect the family to qualify for a Medicaid grant.
Richard Brown: No, I don’t get it, cause I’m not eligible for it. I make a few dollars too much and the salary that I make I can’t afford to really live and to save anything is out of the question. And I mean, I live, we live from payday to payday. I mean literally from payday to payday.
Friedman: His struggle isn’t made any easier by the fact that Mr. Brown knows that if he gave up his job as an orderly at the Harlem Hospital, he would qualify for a government handout. And he’d be better off financially.
Hospital Worker: Mr. Brown, do me a favor please? There is a section patient.
Friedman: It’s a terrible pressure on him. But he is proud of the work that he does here and he’s strong enough to resist the pressure.
Richard Brown: I’m Mr. Brown. Your fully dilated and I’m here to take you to the delivery. Try not to push, please. We want to have a nice sterile delivery.
Friedman: Mr. Brown has found out the hard way that welfare programs destroy an individual’s independence.
Richard Brown: We’ve considered welfare. We went to see, to apply for welfare but, we were told that we were only eligible for $5.00 a month. And, to receive this $5.00 we would have to cash in our son’s savings bonds. And that’s not even worth it. I don’t believe in something for nothing anyway.
Mrs. Brown: I think a lot of people are capable of working and are willing to work, but it’s just the way it is set up. It, the mother and the children are better off if the husband isn’t working or if the husband isn’t there. And this breaks up so many poor families.
Friedman: One of the saddest things is that many of the children whose parents are on welfare will in their turn end up in the welfare trap when they grow up. In this public housing project in the Bronx, New York, 3/4’s of the families are now receiving welfare payments.
Well Mr. Brown wanted to keep away from this kind of thing for a very good reason. The people who get on welfare lose their human independence and feeling of dignity. They become subject to the dictates and whims of their welfare supervisor who can tell them whether they can live here or there, whether they may put in a telephone, what they may do with their lives. They are treated like children, not like responsible adults and they are trapped in the system. Maybe a job comes up which looks better than welfare but they are afraid to take it because if they lose it after a few months it maybe six months or nine months before they can get back onto welfare. And as a result, this becomes a self-perpetuating cycle rather than simply a temporary state of affairs.
Things have gone even further elsewhere. This is a huge mistake. A public housing project in Manchester, England.
Well we’re 3,000 miles away from the Bronx here but you’d never know it just by looking around. It looks as if we are at the same place. It’s the same kind of flats, the same kind of massive housing units, decrepit even though they were only built 7 or 8 years ago. Vandalism, graffiti, the same feeling about the place. Of people who don’t have a great deal of drive and energy because somebody else is taking care of their day to day needs because the state has deprived them of an incentive to find jobs to become responsible people to be the real support for themselves and their families.

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Milton Friedman discusses Reagan and Reagan discusses Friedman

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Friedman Friday:(“Free to Choose” episode 4 – From Cradle to Grave, Part 1 of 7)

Friedman Friday:(“Free to Choose” episode 4 – From Cradle to Grave, Part 1 of 7) Volume 4 – From Cradle to Grave Abstract: Since the Depression years of the 1930s, there has been almost continuous expansion of governmental efforts to provide for people’s welfare. First, there was a tremendous expansion of public works. The Social Security Act […]

August 25, 2012 – 4:52 am Categories: Milton Friedman, President Obama, spending out of control | Post a comment

Open letter to President Obama (Part 129 B)

President Obama c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

I know that you receive 20,000 letters a day and that you actually read 10 of them every day. I really do respect you for trying to get a pulse on what is going on out here.

We need some austerity in the USA and I don’t mean tax increases. That never helps. However, just like many of the European countries we have run away federal government spending that needs to be cut. Why can’t we learn from others mistakes?

Looking at Austerity in Italy

Posted by Juan Carlos Hidalgo

The Italian economy contracted for a third quarter in a row, deepening the country’s recession and adding to the fire of the euro crisis. Italy is the third largest economy in the Eurozone, and many view it as the endgame of an eventual collapse of the common currency because it is too big to fail. Neither the EU nor the IMF have enough cash to rescue it. If the country defaults, that would probably spell the end of the euro.

Austerity is being blamed for Italy’s economic troubles. Chiara Corsa, an economist at UniCredit, wrote that “The key factor is austerity, which is weighing heavily on consumption and investment.” Recent local elections saw the rise of anti-austerity parties. Paul Krugman warned about this back in December when he described the austerity push of Prime Minister Mario Monti as “self-defeating” and “delusional.”

However, as is the case for Britain, France and Greece, commentators are unclear about what austerity means for Italy, although many seem to imply spending cuts. For example, if Krugman’s criticism about Italian austerity is consistent with his critiques about austerity elsewhere in Europe, we know he means spending cuts. So let’s take a look and see if there has been any:


* Using GDP deflator.
Source: European Commission, Economic and Financial Affairs.

Spending in nominal terms increased by a yearly average of 4.1% between 2000 and 2009, and then fell slightly the following year. In 2011 government spending was just 0.14% below its 2009 level. As for spending in real terms, there’s no cut whatsoever. And as a share of the economy, total spending reached a peak in 2009 at 51.6% of GDP, and it fell to 49.6% last year, a decline far from significant.

So what’s austerity all about in Italy so far? According to The Financial Times, the “government’s €30 billion austerity package, passed in December, was heavily oriented towards tax increases rather than spending cuts, an emphasis that is now widely recognized by ministers as having driven Italy deeper into recession.” The FT adds that the Monti administration is facing “intense pressure from business, politicians and the public to shift the burden of austerity away from heavy taxation towards cuts in public spending.” As a result, the Italian Prime Minister announced €4.2 billion in spending cuts starting in June, still less than 1% of total public spending. That doesn’t sound savage to me.

But it’s quite fascinating to see the hysteria surrounding non existent spending cuts and its supposedly negative impact on economic growth. For example, last December The Economist warned:

“But too great an emphasis on austerity in the short run risks sending the continent’s economy into a deep recession; the latest data on Italian industrial production showed an annual fall of 4.1% in October, even before budget cuts were introduced by the new government.”

Interestingly, according to The Economist, spending cuts were somehow responsible for a decline in economic output in Italy even before being implemented!

If austerity is to blame for Italy’s recession, we need to be clear that by austerity we mean mostly tax increases with almost no reduction in government spending.

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August 25, 2012 – 12:33 am Categories: President Obama, spending out of control, Taxes | Post a comment

Free or equal? 30 years after Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose (Part 5)

Johan Norberg – Free or Equal – Free to Choose 30 years later 5/5

Published on Jun 10, 2012 by

In 1980 economist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman inspired market reform in the West and revolutions in the East with his celebrated television series “Free To Choose.”
Thirty years later, in this one-hour documentary, the young Swedish writer, analyst and Cato Institute Fellow Johan Norberg travels in Friedman’s footsteps to see what has
actually happened in the places Friedman’s ideas helped transform. In location after location Norberg examines the contemporary relevance of Friedman’s ideas in the 2011 world of globalization and financial crisis. Central to his examination are the perennial questions concerning power and prosperity, and the trade-offs between individual liberty and income equality.

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I have enjoyed reading this series of reviews by T. Kurt Jaros on Milton and Rose Friedman’s book “Free to Choose.” I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

I have posted several transcripts and videos of the FREE TO CHOOSE film series on my blog. My favorite episodes are the “Failure of Socialism” and  “Power of the Market.” (This is the 1990 version but the 1980 version is good too.) Today with the increase of the welfare state maybe people should take a long look again at the episode “From Cradle to Grave.” 

Milton Friedman’s  view on vouchers for the schools needs to be heeded now more than ever too. “Created Equal” is probably the episode that I wanted President Obama to see the most and I wrote several letters to him suggesting that.

T. Kurt Jaros is currently a Master’s student studying Systematic Theology at King’s College in London.  He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science cum laude and an M.A. in Christian Apologetics high honors from Biola University, an evangelical Christian university outside of Los Angeles.

He enjoys learning and thinking about theology, specifically historical theology, philosophical theology and philosophy of religion, and issues pertaining to monergism and synergism.  Additionally, he enjoys learning and thinking about political philosophy, economics, American political history, and campaigns.

The Tyranny of Controls: Part 2

T. Kurt Jaros on Economics

This is part of a series on Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose.”

In my previous post I explained why the government should not regulate tariffs due to their harmful consequences toward consumers and innovation. This is part five of a series on Free to Choose by Milton Friedman. In the second chapter, Friedman writes on the role of government as it relates to trade. He makes a strong case for free trade, and specifically focuses on international trade.

Economic arrangements are attached to political arrangements among countries. “International free trade fosters harmonious relations among nations that differ in culture and institutions,” just as the same thing happens domestically at a smaller scale. Cooperation among the countries is the rule, and both sides end up happy if they believe they benefit. Otherwise the trade would not take place.

However, once government intervenes, problems begin to rise. If regulation occurs within a country, there is fierce lobbying between businesses to gain exemptions to regulations or for subsidies. The matter only gets worse when you consider trade agreements between two nations. If the government stayed out of regulation, there would be peace and harmony between the two businesses trading. Yet, instead, “high government officials jet around the world to trade conferences” and tension is developed. Instead of a completely private agreement between two companies, the collectivist bureaucrats of their countries represent the businesses.

It is then that the economic matters become political ones, and may even lead to deadly consequences: trade becomes a political weapon. Consider how our federal government uses trade agreements as leverage between Asian or South American countries. In my humble opinion, this just gives politicians another thing to keep busy about. They take time to have “hearings” that include irrelevant sources, use staffers to print up more paperwork and take time to find more politicians that can vote for their bill, etc. If there are no regulations, then there are no politicians wasting time and money harming the economy and diplomatic relations.

Friedman uses the section “Central Economic Planning” to provide historical evidence that wherever there is central economic planning, “ordinary citizens are in political fetters, have a low standard of living, and have little power to control their own destiny.” Consider the stark contrast between East and West Germany. These people were of the same heritage, same skills and same knowledge. But one side had to build a wall not to stop people from coming in, but to stop people from leaving. As Friedman was writing this book, the wall still existed! 

“Which [side] must man it today with armed guards, assisted by fierce dogs, minefields, and similar devices of devilish ingenuity in order to frustrate brace and desperate citizens who are willing to risk their lives to leave their communist paradise for the capitalist hell on the other side of the wall?”

We know too well where socialism and communism lead. Why can’t we see the reality that these philosophies are taking over our own country? In schools we’re taught that FDR’s New Deal was that great thing to help people get through the Great Depression. In reality, he was responsible for extending it. We’re taught that LBJ had this great vision for the Great Society and his war on poverty. In reality, he’s extended it. We think the Department of Education (signed into law by Jimmy Carter) is well intentioned.  Yet it is still central economic planning. That is socialism.

On the other side of the Berlin wall, there were brightly lit, not dull, stores. The streets were filled with cheerful people, not empty and quiet. The newspapers provided all sorts of opinions, not one. The buildings were nicely built, unlike on the other side, where “wartime destruction ha[d] not yet been repaired after more than three decades.” The beauty of our system of government is that we have something to say and can change the way our government regulates the economy. Although we may have to work through the political corruption, it’s possible to bring real change to the path of statism with an irate minority or by having that minority grow to become a majority.

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August 24, 2012 – 10:09 am Categories: Milton Friedman | Post a comment

Razorbacks blew a few games because of kicking

I was really upset at the Florida game in 2009 that we lost because we could not a field goal and the same could be said about the 3 rd overtime short 38 yard kick we missed that would have won the game against Tennessee in Knoxville in 2002. We ended up losing in 6 overtimes.

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Arkansas kicker Alex Tejada helped the Razorbacks win the 2010 Liberty Bowl. But the inconsistency of Tejada and other Razorback kickers over the years were a source of great frustration for fans.
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Arkansas kicker Alex Tejada helped the Razorbacks win the 2010 Liberty Bowl. But the inconsistency of Tejada and other Razorback kickers over the years were a source of great frustration for fans.

This football season marks the 21st for the Razorbacks as members of the SEC. Having completed two decades in the league it seemed worth reflecting on how far the program has come. Which victories over the last 20 years were the sweetest? Were there losses that hurt more than others? What coaching decisions still have folks scratching their heads? ArkansasSports360.com assembled a panel aimed at answering these questions. We have our list and we’d love to hear yours.

No. 6 on our moments you would love to forget …

SHAKY KICKING

When it happened: 2002-2009

Who we remember: Alex Tejada, Brendan O’Donohoe.

Why we’d like to forget: Arkansas has had an amazing run of clutch kickers over the years, starting with Tom McNelly winning the Texas game in Austin in 1960, a program-changing victory for Frank Broyles. Bob White, Bill McClard, Steve Little, Ish Ordonez, Bruce Lahay, Kendall Trainor and Todd Wright all became household names to Razorback fans for making the extra point and field goal “automatic.”

So it was that Hog fans and UA coaches were yanking their hair out in the 2000s when games were lost on the foot of such highly recruited kickers as El Dorado’s Brendan O’Donohoe and Springdale’s Alex Tejada.

Houston Nutt could find a walk-on like Todd Latourette, Chris Balserio or David Carlton to rescue the kicking game during his 10-year run, and it was rare he would offer a high school kicker a scholarship until O’Donohoe came along out of El Dorado.

But Nutt was almost past the frustration point with his kicker when O’Donohoe was called on to end the Tennessee game in the third overtime in Knoxville in 2002. From 34 yards away, he missed for the third time in the game, and Tennessee escaped with a victory in the sixth overtime.

Tejada was much heralded for his leg strength, but his direction left lots to be desired, especially with Bobby Petrino in 2008-09. A missed field at Kentucky in ’08 would have provided the Hogs with the winning margin there, and Tejada badly blew a 47-yarder at the end of regulation in a 31-28 loss at Mississippi State. In 2009, Tejada failed both at Florida in a game the Hogs lost 23-20 and in overtime at LSU in a 33-30 defeat.

Providence yet shined on Tejada: He delivered the winner in overtime to beat East Carolina in the Liberty Bowl on Jan. 2, 2010. Then he gave way in the 2010 season to Russellville product Zach Hocker, who has had an amazing run of success for two seasons.

Up Next: October unkind to Razorbacks …

August 24, 2012 – 7:00 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

Mark May at Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 4

Too bad for Ohio State they had to forfeit the Sugar Bowl victory in 2011.

I got to hear Mark May speak at the Little Rock Touchdown Club on August 20, 2012 and he did a great job.

May sees hurdles for Hogs in SEC

By Jeremy Muck

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

LITTLE ROCK — During his 32-minute speech to the Little Rock Touchdown Club at The Peabody Little Rock hotel Monday, ESPN college football analyst Mark May had high hopes for the Arkansas football team.

“If they win less than nine games, I’ll be surprised,” said May of the No. 10 Razorbacks, who finished 11-2 last season and beat Kansas State in the Cotton Bowl. “The two challenges, obviously, are LSU and Alabama but they get them both at home [Alabama on Sept. 15, LSU on Nov. 23]. They’re going to have to go to South Carolina and from all indications, [ junior running back] Marcus Lattimore is back. It’s going to be tough to stop them because if he’s back to 100 percent after the knee injury, he’s one of the top three backs in the nation, without a doubt.

“Those are the three games they’re going to have to target. Every other game, they should be favored in.”

May, 52, was a first-round draft pick in 1981 by the Washington Redskins from Pittsburgh. He played on two Super Bowl-winning teams with the Redskins and was an All-American and Outland Trophy winner in 1980.

After playing 13 seasons in the NFL (1981-1990 Redskins, 1991 San Diego Chargers, 1992-1993 Arizona Cardinals), May worked for TNT and CBS before joining ESPN in 2001. He is an analyst on ESPN’s College Football Scoreboard and College Football Final.

May praised Long’s decision in April to hire Coach John L. Smith to replace former coach Bobby Petrino, who was fired. Long had served as Arkansas’ special teams coach before leaving to take the Weber State head coaching position last December,

“It was a short window that had to be filled in a hurry,” May said. “I think what Jeff Long did was he brought in a CEO. He wanted a guy that’s not going to tinker with the major problems on this football team, if there are any.”

May said that if Smith is not retained by Arkansas after this season, possible coaching candidates could include Cincinnati Coach Butch Jones, Louisville Coach Charlie Strong (Batesville) and defensive coordinators Manny Diaz at Texas and Mark Stoops at Florida State.

As for Petrino, May believes he should take his time getting back into head coaching.

“I’d try to go out and get a job as an offensive coordinator someplace, maybe Conference USA,” May said, “to at least get back into the game and re-establish myself.Maybe in another 3-5 years, he would have another opportunity to be a head coach again. But right now, he’s as toxic as [former Ohio State coach] Jim Tressel.”

Junior running back Knile Davis – who missed the 2011 season after ankle surgery – has not participated in contact drills since Arkansas opened camp earlier this month, which concerns May leading up to the Razorbacks’ opener Sept. 1 against Jacksonville State in Fayetteville.

“I want to see him get hit before he plays,” said May of Davis. “I want to make sure he’s ready to go before the first whistle blows. I think John has to make that decision in the next week or so.”

Other highlights from May’s speech to the Little Rock Touchdown Club:

On LSU dismissing junior defensive back Tyrann Mathieu, who was a Heisman Trophy finalist last season: “People don’t realize how good he was. He changed the game against Arkansas. He changed the game against Florida. He changed the game in the SEC Championship Game against Georgia.In every one of those games, they were down. He scored a touchdown, whether it would be an interception return or a punt return. … He’s the momentum changer of that franchise, that program.”

On Southern California – which was on NCAA probation the past two seasons- being picked as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason poll: “That’s a hard one to fathom. They’re very thin. They’ve lost scholarships. … They have a weak schedule. You look at their schedule, their three nonconference games are Hawaii, Syracuse and Notre Dame. They’re going to be favored in every one of their games the entire season long. Their only challenge is going to be Oregon at home [Nov. 3]. That’s it. The second game will be when they play Oregon in the Pac-12 Championship Game. They’ve got an easy road to get to the championship game. But they’re going to be playing against a juggernaut from the SEC West.”

On whether the NCAA sanctions for Penn State’s football program were strong enough: “I think after the Freeh Report, I think Mark Emmert and the NCAA did a terrific job in how they handled it. The president of Penn State signed off on it. It was a brutal agreement for Penn State, but it was something that had to be done. … The way they protected people there was atrocious.”

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“Friedman Friday” : Jewish tradition is so akin to capitalism but many Jews are socialists, what a paradox (Part 4)

Milton Friedman on the American Economy (5 of 6)

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THE OPEN MIND
Host: Richard D. Heffner
Guest: Milton Friedman
Title: A Nobel Laureate on the American Economy VTR: 5/31/77

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Below is a part of the series on an article by Milton Friedman called “Capitalism and the Jews” published in 1972. 

Capitalism and the Jews

October 1988 • Volume: 38 • Issue: 10 • Print This Post • 11 comments

Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. This article is reprinted with the permission of Encounter and The Fraser Institute.

“Capitalism and the Jews” was originally presented as a lecture before the Mont Pelerin Society in 1972. It subsequently was published in England and Canada and appears here without significant revision.

Freedom of Entry and Jewish Representation

 Moreover, within those countries, Jews have flourished most in the sectors that have the freest entry and are in that sense most competitive. Compare the experience of the Jews in banking, that I have referred to, with their experience in retail trade, which has been almost a prototype of the textbook image of perfect competition and free entry. Or compare their minor role in large industry with their prominence in the professions such as law, medicine, accountancy and the like.[4] Though there are barriers to entry in the professions, too, once past the initial barriers, there is a large measure of free competition for custom. Even the differences within the professions illustrate my theme. In the U.S., for which I know the details, there was for a long time a major difference between medicine and law in the extent to which state licensure was an effective bar to entry. For reasons that are not relevant here, there was significant restriction of entry in medicine, relatively little in law. And Jews were proportionately much more numerous in law than in medicine.

 The movie industry in the U.S. was a new industry and for that reason open to all. Jews became a major factor and this carried over to radio and television when they came on the scene. But now that government control and regulation has become more and more important, I am under the impression that the Jewish role in radio and T.V. is declining.

Capitalism and Israel

 A rather different example of the benefits Jews have derived from competitive capitalism is provided by Israel, and this in a dual sense. 

First, Israel would hardly have been viable without the massive contributions that it received from world Jewry, primarily from the U.S., secondarily from Britain and other Western capitalist countries. Suppose these countries had been socialist. The hypothetical socialist countries might conceivably have contributed, but if so they would have done so for very different reasons and with very different conditions attached. Compare Soviet aid to Egypt or official U.S. aid to Israel with private contributions. In a capitalist system, any group, however small a minority, can use its own resources as it wishes, without seeking or getting the permission of the majority. 

Second, within Israel, despite all the talk of central control, the reality is that rapid development has been primarily the product of private initiative. After my first extended visit to Israel two decades ago, I concluded that two traditions were at work in Israel: an ancient one, going back nearly two thousand years, of finding ways around governmental restrictions; a modern one, going back a century, of belief in “democratic socialism” and “central planning.” Fortunately for Israel, the first tradition has proved far more potent than the second. 

To summarize: Except for the sporadic protection of individual monarchs to whom they were useful, Jews have seldom benefited from governmental intervention on their behalf. They have flourished when and only when there has been a widespread acceptance by the public at large of the general doctrine of non-intervention, so that a large measure of competitive capitalism and of tolerance for all groups has prevailed. They have flourished then despite continued widespread anti-Semitic prejudice because the general belief in non-intervention was more powerful than the specific urge to discriminate against the Jews.

III. The Anti-capitalist Mentality of the Jews

Despite this record, for the past century, the Jews have been a stronghold of anti-capitalist sentiment. From Karl Marx through Leon Trotsky to Herbert Marcuse, a sizable fraction of the revolutionary anti-capitalist literature has been authored by Jews. Communist parties in all countries, including the patty that achieved revolution in Russia but also present-day Communist parties in Western countries, and especially in the U.S.,[5] have been run and manned to a disproportionate extent by Jews—though I hasten to add that only a tiny fraction of Jews have ever been members of the Communist party. Jews have been equally active in the less- revolutionary socialist movements in all countries, as intellectuals generating socialist literature, as active participants in leadership, and as members. 

Coming still closer to the center, in Britain the Jewish vote and participation is predominantly in the Labor party, in the U.S., in the left wing of the Democratic party. The party programs of the so-called right-wing parties in Israel would be regarded as “liberal,” in the modern sense, almost everywhere else. These phenomena are so well known that they require little elaboration or documentation.[6]

August 24, 2012 – 5:58 am Categories: Milton Friedman | Post a comment

Open letter to President Obama (Part 129)

Milton Friedman – The Welfare Establishment

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Professor Friedman looks at the dynamics of the welfare state.
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President Obama c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

I know that you receive 20,000 letters a day and that you actually read 10 of them every day. I really do respect you for trying to get a pulse on what is going on out here.

Are we heading to Greece? It seems that a lot of people in Greece just sit around and wait for their government check to come in.

Christie the Prophet

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Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution.

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This article appeared in National Review (Online) on April 18, 2012.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie recently warned that America is in danger of becoming a country of “people sitting on the couch waiting for their next government check.” Predictably, the Left was outraged, but Governor Christie wasn’t far off the mark.

During the 2011 debate over raising the debt ceiling, President Obama reminded Americans that the federal government sends out 70 million checks every month. That is probably an underestimate. According to the Washington Post, the president’s number included Social Security, veterans’ benefits, and spending on non-defense contractors and vendors, but not reimbursements to Medicare providers and vendors or electronic transfers to the 21 million households receiving food stamps. (Nor did he include most spending by the Defense Department, which has a payroll of 6.4 million active and retired employees and, on average, cuts checks for nearly 1 million invoices and 660,000 travel-expense claims per month.) The actual number might be closer to 200 million checks every month.

Of course it would be unfair to lump everyone who receives a check from the government in with the people Governor Christie was talking about (though it does say something about the size of government) but, nonetheless, we are becoming a society that relies on government to care for us.

[T]oday, every problem in society prompts calls for government action, response, or funding.

In 1965, just 22 percent of all federal spending was transfer payments. Today it has doubled to 44 percent. That means that nearly half of all federal spending is simply government taking money from one person and giving it to another.

Or look at it another way: In 1965, transfer payments from the federal government made up less than 10 percent of wages and salaries. As recently as 2000, that percentage was just 21 percent. Today, transfer payments are more than a third of salary and wages. Worse, if one includes salaries from government employment, more than half of Americans receive a substantial portion of their income from the government.

Conservatives often criticize transfer payments to the poor, and for good reason. At the federal and state levels combined, we spend nearly $1 trillion per year on anti-poverty or means-tested programs that do more to promote a permanent underclass than to eliminate poverty. But the modern welfare state is much more than programs for the poor. It includes middle-class welfare, such as Social Security and Medicare, which are the real drivers of our future national insolvency. We think of Medicaid as health care for the poor, but as much as two-thirds of Medicaid spending goes to pay for long-term care such as nursing homes for the elderly, much of it for middle-class people sheltering assets. And the modern welfare state also includes corporate welfare, the military-industrial complex, and others living off the taxpayer’s dime. The Export-Import Bank is as much welfare as TANF.

This is the road we are now on. The welfare state started with small programs targeted toward a small number of genuinely needy people. But as politicians figured out the electoral benefits of expanding programs and people realized they could let others work on their behalf, those programs grew until the point at which, today, every problem in society prompts calls for government action, response, or funding.

At the same time, as Governor Christie also noted, this implicitly tells people, “stop dreaming, stop striving.” We demonize those who do succeed, damning them as part of the evil “1 percent.”

This is the real danger of the welfare state. It’s not that it will bankrupt us — though it will. It is that it slowly and insidiously destroys our national character, saps our will to be great, and makes us content with the way things are rather than how they could be. We have seen where this road ends. As Governor Christie warns, it “will not just bankrupt us financially, it will bankrupt us morally.”

Biblical exegesis tells us that the Israelites needed to wander for 40 years in the desert after being released from bondage in Egypt because they couldn’t begin to build a new nation until a new generation grew up that hadn’t been raised in bondage. Those raised in slavery were not trained to think for themselves; they had become dependent on their masters to provide for them. Indeed, when they encountered hardships, many cried for a return to bondage.

Just look to Europe today. The welfare states of Europe are imploding, collapsing under the weight of promises that can no longer be met. Their citizens riot in the streets at the prospect that their government benefits might be reduced.

If anyone wants to know what this next election is really about, Governor Christie just told us.

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Thank you so much for your time. I know how valuable it is. I also appreciate the fine family that you have and your commitment as a father and a husband.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher III, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002, ph 501-920-5733, lowcostsqueegees@yahoo.com

August 24, 2012 – 12:29 am Categories: Cato Institute, Milton Friedman, President Obama, spending out of control | Post a comment

Questionable calls between Arkansas and SEC opponents

In the last 5 minutes of this video you can see some key plays from the 1971 Liberty Bowl and it shows Tom Reed recovering the ball for the hogs.

There are lots of questionable calls in the past and at the bottom of this post you will find a fine article from Arkansas Sports 360 on them. The biggest mistake in the past in my view is from the 1971 Liberty Bowl between Arkansas and Tennessee when clearly Tom Reed can be seen recovering the fumbe for Arkansas but the ball was given to the Vols. Here are some more details on the game below:

Ferguson lofted a screen to Jon Richardson, who was hit hard by Graham and fumbled, resulting in a broken wrist for the Hog tailback. Just where and under whom the fumble went is a mystery only to be solved by the most instant of instant replays. Some stories had the ball going out of bounds, others said Tom Reed recovered. Tennessee claimed it was sub-tackle Carl Witherspoon, and the scoreboard later agreed, though half the stadium didn’t.  Arkansas did not like the call, to say the least, and it gave the Vols momentum. This was momentum leading to a 17-yard scoring romp by previously injured fullback Curt Watson. He eluded all red shirts around his own right end, and deadlocked the game at 13-13. Hunt put on the clincher at the 1:56 mark (video).

 

Arkansas tried a last-ditch effort, driving 20 yards before Ferguson’s second-down bomb intended for Hodge found its way into the hands of UT defender, Eddie Brown, and the Liberty Howl was over. And so was the 1971 football season for 51,110 fans in Memphis Memorial Stadium

 
 

 
George Silvey (far right) carries for Tennessee
 

 
Jim Hodge catches TD from Joe Ferguson (above) then celebrates with teammate (below)

 
 

 
Tennessee’s Curt Watson on winning TD run

 
 Attendance– 51,110 

Scoring Summary

 

First Quarter

UT- Rudder 2 run (Hunt kick)

 

Second Quarter

UA- Hodge 36 yard pass from Ferguson (McClard kick)

 

Fourth Quarter

UA- FG McClard 19

UA- FG McClard 30

UT- Watson 17 run (Hunt kick)

 

Individual Statistics

Rushing

UA- Saint 17-71, Richardson 13-38, Hodge 1-12, Morton 11-48

UT- Chancey 12-34, Rudder 5-18, Silvey 2-3, Watson 11-39

Passing

UA- Ferguson 18-28-200

UT- Maxwell 10-20-120, Rudder 1-1-22

Receiving-

UA- Hodge 6-75, Ettinger 5-53, Richardson 6-48, Nichols 1-24

UT- Rudder 2-10, Love 3-37, Thompson 2-16, Theiler 3-53, Silvey 1-26

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Questionable calls at Florida in 2009 cost the Razorbacks a win and drew the ire of then coach Bobby Petrino.
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Questionable calls at Florida in 2009 cost the Razorbacks a win and drew the ire of then coach Bobby Petrino.

This football season marks the 21st for the Razorbacks as members of the SEC. Having completed two decades in the league it seemed worth reflecting on how far the program has come. Which victories over the last 20 years were the sweetest? Were there losses that hurt more than others? What coaching decisions still have folks scratching their heads? ArkansasSports360.com assembled a panel aimed at answering these questions. We have our list and we’d love to hear yours.

No. 8 on our moments you would love to forget …

Shady Stripes In Florida
When it happened: Oct. 17, 2009
Who we remember: Referee Marc Curles, Coaches Bobby Petrino and Urban Meyer, Tim Tebow, Ryan Mallett, Malcolm Sheppard, CBS announcers Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson.
Why we’d like to forget: A few games in Arkansas history (Ole Miss in 1960, SMU in 1982) seemed known more for the officiating that appeared to determine the outcome than for the play on the field. Arkansas seemed on the verge of knocking off No. 1 Florida in Gainesville in 2009 if not for some odd officiating by a crew led by Marc Curles. That the SEC league office would suspend the crew for three weeks following the game indicated that if it wasn’t an outright “hosing,” at least the SEC believed the bad officiating deserved more than a reprimand.

Countless plays — late hits out of bounds that weren’t flagged, unusual spotting of the football that appeared favorable toward the home team, etc. — had the small Arkansas contingent in The Swamp, not to mention head coach Bobby Petrino, upset. The Hogs seized the momentum in the second quarter and constantly frustrated Gators’ Heisman Trophy quarterback Tim Tebow. However, it was one play in the fourth quarter that even the CBS announcing crew found outlandish, and they harped on it even after the game was over.

Arkansas defensive lineman Malcolm Sheppard was whistled for a personal foul by the officials, though video replay showed that he appeared to be legally taking on a Florida offensive lineman blocking 20 yards away from the play. The call kept alive a tying fourth-quarter drive by the Gators, and Florida would then win on a late march, also aided by questionable spotting leading to a short field goal, 23-20.

Arkansas had the sympathy of the nation after that loss — maybe for the first time when Hog fans had screamed foul — because it allowed Florida to remain unbeaten on its collision course with the unbeaten Alabama Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship Game. There, Tebow’s magic ran out. Marc Curles’ crew was nowhere to be seen that weekend.

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Questionable calls between Arkansas and SEC opponents

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Houston Nutt went 6-1 in overtime games at Arkansas

You got to respect a lot of the results that Houston Nutt got while he was the Hog football coach. He won or tied for the SEC West 3 out of 10 years and he had us in the national title conversation in 1998 and 2006 as late as Novemeber. (Petrino did the same last […]

Mark May at Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 3

I went to hear Mark May speak at the Little Rock Touchdown Club on August 20, 2012 and he did a great job of giving some insights into the Penn St case and he also looked into the SEC race this year. I do think that May has some good insights and I think his […]

Mark May at Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 2

Wally Hall wrote a fine article on the Little Rock Touchdown Club meeting yesterday that I got to attend. It was moving when Mark May got choked up responding to a question about the Penn St scandal. Wally refers to that. LIKE IT IS: ESPN analyst starts LRTC talks with bang Tuesday, August 21, 2012 […]

SEC football championship game history

I have been hoping that Arkansas could win the SEC Championship game but after 20 years we still haven’t done so. Wikipedia reports that four times have appeared at least five times. They are Florida (10), Alabama (7), LSU (5) and Tennessee (5). Arkansas does have 3 appearances but no wins. Florida has the most wins […]

Mark May at Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 1

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10 most hated men in SEC football

Got this off the internet: Nutt makes the top 10 for one of the few times in his SEC Coaching Career 10 Most Hated Men in the SEC There is no doubt that the college football conference with the most emotion is the SEC.  One of those emotions is hate and this is the list […]

Past Little Rock Touchdown Club meetings (Part 3)

This year’s Little Rock Touchdown Club speakers are very exciting and I am really excited about the first one being Mark May. Below that are some of the posts about past speakers. Here is an article from Arkansas Sports 360 on the lineup of speakers: ESPN’s Mark May Kicks Off Little Rock Touchdown Club Aug. 20 <!– 23 […]

Top 25 football teams for 2012

Photo by Erin Nelson Alabama head coach Nick Saban signs autographs for fans at the Southeastern Conference NCAA college football media days in Hoover, Ala. on Thursday, July 19, 2012. (AP Photo/The Tuscaloosa News, Erin Nelson) Photo by Butch Dill LSU coach Les Miles speaks to reporters at the Southeastern Conference NCAA college football media […]

Past Little Rock Touchdown Club meetings (Part 2)

This year’s Little Rock Touchdown Club speakers are very exciting and I am really excited about the first one being Mark May. Below that are some of the posts about past speakers. Here is more about Mark May from Wikipedia: Mark Eric May (born November 2, 1959) is a former American college and professional football player who was […]

August 23, 2012 – 8:26 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

Houston Nutt went 6-1 in overtime games at Arkansas

You got to respect a lot of the results that Houston Nutt got while he was the Hog football coach. He won or tied for the SEC West 3 out of 10 years and he had us in the national title conversation in 1998 and 2006 as late as Novemeber. (Petrino did the same last year.)

However, one of the most impressive things Nutt did is go 6-1 in overtime games. The only loss being to Tennessee. I was driving from Little Rock to Orlando that night and I caught it on the radio in the fourth quarter. Little did I realize that I would get to see the last two overtime periods on tv at the hotel with my relatives about 1 hour later. What was amazing to me was the horrible field goal kick that Tennessee made in the second overtime. It cleared the goal post about 3 inches. Then our kicker had a chance to win it in the 3rd overtime with a 38 yard kick and he missed that!!! Here are some of the details of the game from Sports Illustrated:

Working overtime

No. 10 Tennessee takes out Arkansas 41-38 in six OTs

Posted: Sunday October 06, 2002 12:35 AM
Updated: Sunday October 06, 2002 1:56 AM
Rashad Moore, Omari Hand Tennessee’s Rashad Moore (58) and Omari Hand (91) rest during a timeout in the sixth OT of the Vols’ 41-38 win. AP

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer said a lack of discipline and youthful mistakes were keeping the No. 10 Volunteers from playing their best. He had nothing to complain about Saturday night.

Jason Witten caught a 25-yard touchdown pass from Casey Clausen in the sixth overtime to give Tennessee (4-1, 1-1 SEC) an exhausting 41-38 win over Arkansas.

“This is the type of game that jells a football team. I am excited about the way we played,” he said. “We had the heart and the guts to take it to them.”

For the Razorbacks (2-2, 0-2), who beat Mississippi 58-57 in a record-setting seven-overtime game last season, it was a heart-wrenching loss.

They pushed into the final overtime but had to settle for a 47-yard field goal by David Carlton in the sixth OT before the Vols got their last chance.

“When it went into overtime, I said, ‘This is our game. We’re ready,”‘ Arkansas coach Houston Nutt said. “This was bitter, bitter. There were a lot of times we outplayed them.”

The teams kicked field goals in the first two overtimes and were held scoreless in the third.

Arkansas finally scored a touchdown in the next OT, on Matt Jones’ run, but the Razorbacks couldn’t get the 2-point conversion. Under NCAA rules, teams must go for 2 points after touchdowns starting with the third overtime.

Tennessee scored a touchdown on Clausen’s 25-yard pass to Tony Brown, but the Vols also failed on the 2-point conversion.

Jabari Davis, who scored two TDs in regulation, ran from 12 yards out to start the fifth overtime. He fumbled, but the ball was recovered in the end zone by Troy Fleming. Clausen was then stopped on the conversion attempt. De’Arrius Howard scored a TD for Arkansas, whose pass attempt was intercepted by Tennessee’s Julian Battle at the goal line.

Arkansas scored two touchdowns in a 41/2-minute span of regulation to tie the game at 17 with 3:30 to go.

The Razorbacks trailed 17-3 after Davis scored on a 58-yard touchdown run a minute into the fourth quarter. Arkansas got the ball back, drove 60 yards and scored when Howard ran 10 yards.

The Vols were pushed back, penalized and had to punt on fourth-and-17.

Standing at his own 8, Jones passed to Richard Smith at the 40, and Smith ran down the sideline untouched to the end zone for a 92-yard touchdown to tie it.

“The coaches have told us never to quit, and we were down seven at our own 8, I kept thinking about that,” Jones said.

Clausen completed 19 of 28 passes for 291 yards and two touchdowns.

Jones, who couldn’t find many open receivers, ran 21 times for 66 yards. Arkansas’ leading rusher, Cedric Cobbs, left the game in the third quarter with a twisted left ankle.

The Razorbacks, who have lost five straight games in Knoxville since 1992, continued to rely heavily on the run but couldn’t score a touchdown until Howard’s 10-yard run cut Tennessee’s lead to 17-10 with 6:56 remaining.

Tennessee came into the game averaging 129.5 yards on the ground — 10th out of 12 SEC teams — and was determined to improve despite its leading rusher, Cedric Houston, sitting out with a torn ligament in his left thumb.

The Vols pounded away at Arkansas’ defense with Davis, starting in place of Houston, carrying 25 times for 135 yards. Tennessee finished with 162 yards on 47 attempts.

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Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones appeared too laid-back to some fans, but his stamina during septuple overtime games was hard to deny.
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Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones appeared too laid-back to some fans, but his stamina during septuple overtime games was hard to deny.

This football season marks the 21st for the Razorbacks as members of the SEC. Having completed two decades in the league it seemed worth reflecting on how far the program has come. Which victories over the last 20 years were the sweetest? Were there losses that hurt more than others? What coaching decisions still have folks scratching their heads? ArkansasSports360.com assembled a panel aimed at answering these questions. We have our list and we’d love to hear yours.

No. 8 on our moments you love to remember…

Going Overtime
When It Happened: Nov. 3, 2001
Who We Remember: Matt Jones, Eli Manning, Jermaine Petty, Jason Peters, Houston Nutt and David Cutcliffe.
Why We Remember: An NCAA game had never before gone seven overtimes, and by the fifth one the fans for both sides in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium (and maybe those watching on ESPN2) were wishing for someone, anyone, to win this Arkansas-Ole Miss matchup. Ole Miss was favored behind future Super Bowl-winning quarterback Eli Manning, but regulation play ended 17-all, and then it really got wild.

The night proved to be Matt Jones’ coming out party, with unbelievable runs and throws during the extra periods. Jones looked like former Ole Miss superstar Archie Manning in running around the Rebels for a 25-yard scoring run, and later he scrambled and somehow found tight end Jason Peters (now an NFL All-Pro tackle) for a key two-point conversion pass.

It was as if Jones was drawing up plays in the dirt, and Ole Miss’ defense had no answer. Of course, Arkansas’ defense was having its own difficult time keeping Eli Manning from reaching the end zone too.

Finally, Hog linebacker Jermaine Petty stopped a tying 2-point play and Arkansas had a 58-56 win, spurring them on to a 7-4 regular-season finish.

The game became an “Instant” ESPN Classic, and KATV, Channel 7, produced videos of the game that were in huge demand.

The game would spark Arkansas to a berth in the Cotton Bowl against Oklahoma.

Jones and Arkansas would lose a six-OT game at Tennessee the next year and would win another seven-overtime game in 2003 over Kentucky and Jared Lorenzen, 71-63, but by then these games were old hat to Hog fans.

But maybe better than going seven overtimes was Nutt, fittingly, watching his Hogs use three OTs in dispatching eventual national champion LSU 50-48 in 2007 in the coach’s last game as Razorback coach. Darren McFadden and Peyton Hillis were especially dominant that day in Baton Rouge.

Nutt was an amazing 6-1 in overtime games as UA coach.

August 23, 2012 – 7:56 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

Open letter to Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on our pro-life views (Part 4)

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To Mitt Romney, Box 149756, Boston, MA 02114-9756  From Everette Hatcher of www.thedailyhatch.org 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002

Did we forgive George Bush in 1988 for being pro-choice originally in 1980? We sure did. In fact, my former pastor, Adrian Rogers, had a chance to visit with Bush several times. He told him that the Religious Right did not have enough votes to get him elected on their own, but if he ever went against the pro-life view then they could definately derail his election bid.

Today I am writing you to remind you of the same thing. We in the pro-life movement are firmly behind you but we want to know some of the reasons are passionately pro-life.

Below is a summary of “A Christian Manifesto” which is a very important book written by Francis Schaeffer just a couple of years before his death in 1984.

A Christian Manifesto
by Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer

This address was delivered by the late Dr. Schaeffer in 1982 at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is based on one of his books, which bears the same title.

The January 11 Newsweek has an article about the baby in the womb. The first 5 or 6 pages are marvelous. If you haven’t seen it, you should see if you can get that issue. It’s January 11 and about the first 5 or 6 pages show conclusively what every biologist has known all along, and that is that human life begins at conception. There is no other time for human life to begin, except at conception. Monkey life begins at conception. Donkey life begins at conception. And human life begins at conception. Biologically, there is no discussion — never should have been — from a scientific viewpoint. I am not speaking of religion now. And this 5 or 6 pages very carefully goes into the fact that human life begins at conception. But you flip the page and there is this big black headline, “But is it a person?” And I’ll read the last sentence, “The problem is not determining when actual human life begins, but when the value of that life begins to out weigh other considerations, such as the health or even the happiness of the mother.”

We are not just talking about the health of the mother (it’s a propaganda line), or even the happiness of the mother. Listen! Spell that out! It means that the mother, for her own hedonistic happiness — selfish happiness — can take human life by her choice, by law. Do you understand what I have said? By law, on the basis of her individual choice of what makes her happy. She can take what has been declared to be, in the first five pages [of the article], without any question, human life. In other words, they acknowledge that human life is there, but it is an open question as to whether it is not right to kill that human life if it makes the mother happy.

And basically that is no different than Stalin, Mao, or Hitler, killing who they killed for what they conceived to be the good of society. There is absolutely no line between the two statements — no absolute line, whatsoever. One follows along: Once that it is acknowledged that it is human life that is involved (and as I said, this issue of Newsweek shows conclusively that it is) the acceptance of death of human life in babies born or unborn, opens the door to the arbitrary taking of any human life. From then on, it’s purely arbitrary.

It was this view that opened the door to all that followed in Germany prior to Hitler. It’s an interesting fact here that the only Supreme Court in the Western World that has ruled against easy abortion is the West German Court. The reason they did it is because they knew, and it’s clear history, that this view of human life in the medical profession and the legal profession combined, before Hitler came on the scene, is what opened the way for everything that happened in Hitler’s Germany. And so, the German Supreme Court has voted against easy abortion because they know — they know very well where it leads.

I want to say something tonight. Not many of you are black in this audience. I can’t tell if you are Puerto Rican. But if I were in the minority group in this country, tonight, I would be afraid. I’ve had big gorgeous blacks stand up in our seminars and ask, “Sir, do you think there is a racial twist to all this?” And I have to say, “Right on! You’ve hit it right on the head!” Once this door is opened, there is something to be afraid of. Christians should be deeply concerned, and I cannot understand why the liberal lawyer of the Civil Liberties Union is not scared to death by this open door towards human life. Everyone ought to be frightened who knows anything about history — anything about the history of law, anything about the history of medicine. This is a terrifying door that is open.

Abortion itself would be worth spending much of our lifetimes to fight against, because it is the killing of human life, but it’s only a symptom of the total. What we are facing is Humanism: Man, the measure of all things — viewing final reality being only material or energy shaped by chance — therefore, human life having no intrinsic value — therefore, the keeping of any individual life or any groups of human life, being purely an arbitrary choice by society at the given moment.

The flood doors are wide open. I fear both they, and too often the Christians, do not have just relativistic values (because, unhappily, Christians can live with relativistic values) but, I fear, that often such people as the liberal lawyers of the Civil Liberties Union and Christians, are just plain stupid in regard to the lessons of history. Nobody who knows his history could fail to be shaken at the corner we have turned in our culture. Remember why: because of the shift in the concept of the basic reality!

Now, we cannot be at all surprised when the liberal theologians support these things, because liberal theology is only Humanism using theological terms, and that’s all it ever was, all the way back into Germany right after the Enlightenment. So when they come down on the side of easy abortion and infanticide, as some of these liberal denominations as well as theologians are doing, we shouldn’t be surprised. It follows as night after day.

I have a question to ask you, and that is: Where have the Bible-believing Christians been in the last 40 years? All of this that I am talking about has only come in the last 80 years (I’m 70… I just had my birthday, so just 10 years older than I am). None of this was true in the United States. None of it! And the climax has all come within the last 40 years, which falls within the intelligent scope of many of you sitting in this room. Where have the Bible-believing Christians been? We shouldn’t be surprised the liberal theologians have been no help — but where have we been as we have changed to this other consensus and all the horrors and stupidity of the present moment has come down on out culture? We must recognize that this country is close to being lost. Not, first of all , because of the Humanist conspiracy — I believe that there are those who conspire, but that is not the reason this country is almost lost. This country is almost lost because the Bible-believing Christians, in the last 40 years, who have said that they know that the final reality is this infinite-personal God who is the Creator and all the rest, have done nothing about it as the consensus has changed. There has been a vast silence!

Christians of this country have simply been silent. Much of the Evangelical leadership has not raised a voice. As a matter of fact, it was almost like sticking pins into the Evangelical constituency in most places to get them interested in the issue of human life while Dr. Koop and Franky and I worked on Whatever Happened to the Human Race, a vast, vast silence.

I wonder what God has to say to us? All these freedoms we have. All the secondary blessings we’ve had out of the preaching of the Gospel and we have let it slip through our fingers in the lifetime of most of you here. Not a hundred years ago — it has been in our lifetime in the last 40 years that these things have happened.

It’s not only the Christian leaders. Where have the Christian lawyers been? Why haven’t they been challenging this change in the view of what the First Amendment means, which I’ll deal with in a second. Where have the Christian doctors been — speaking out against the rise of the abortion clinics and all the other things? Where have the Christian businessmen been — to put their lives and their work on the line concerning these things which they would say as Christians are central to them? Where have the Christian educators been — as we have lost our educational system? Where have we been? Where have each of you been? What’s happened in the last 40 years?

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