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Post by jacquelope on Oct 4, 2011 17:36:51 GMT -6
I can't actually believe this isn't a joke article. This just can't possible be true. Can it? www.thenation.com/article/163672/charles-koch-friedrich-hayek-use-social-securityCharles Koch to Friedrich Hayek: Use Social Security! Yasha Levine and Mark Ames September 27, 2011 | This article appeared in the October 17, 2011 edition of The Nation. There’s right-wing hypocrisy, and then there’s this: Charles Koch, billionaire patron of free-market libertarianism, privately championed the benefits of Social Security to Friedrich Hayek, the leading laissez-faire economist of the twentieth century. Koch even sent Hayek a government pamphlet to help him take advantage of America’s federal retirement insurance and healthcare programs.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Oct 4, 2011 22:03:05 GMT -6
I heard that too.
And probably the most hypocritical part is Hayek's own reaction. He didn't want to come back to the US because he'd lose the "socialized" health care he had in Austria--the very thing he was being asked to advocate against--and which he was apparently willing to advocate against if he was assured that his own socialized health care would not be jeopardized.
It should be called the Austrian Hypocritical Economic school of thinking.
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Post by blueneck on Oct 5, 2011 15:19:17 GMT -6
Another one is Ayn Rand who was also on Social Security and Medicare
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Post by blueneck on Oct 6, 2011 10:52:05 GMT -6
So typical of these wealthy types
always looking to stiff someone with the tab
always first in line for a freebie. Just look at all the free marketeers on wall street with their hands out during the TARP
privatize profits, socialize risks
I rmember back when I worked in resturants and as a sack boy in a supermarket the obviously more affluent were always the lousiest tippers
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