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In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.

Milton Friedman

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Government People Philosophy Problem Protection
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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Drug Government Protection See True War
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Equality Freedom Rule Society
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote

In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.

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In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.

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