The Yes Men Fix the World Page #3

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- Thank you.

- Okay, take care.

- Yes, hello.

Hello, sorry...

- Mhm. Yeah.

- And you--

That's right.

Yeah, well -- Yeah.

- Is that right?

Well, that's pretty much--

Yeah, that's exactly

what I said.

It's--

Did you find that not--

Okay.

Refreshing?

We meant to be shocking,

not refreshingly honest.

To us, this was

about refreshing as

the Kool-Aid in Jonestown.

The mass suicide and murder

of more than 900 Americans

who took

cyanide-laced fruit punch

from their

spiritual father

and then

laid down to die.

THAT'S THE THING

ABOUT CULTS--

WHAT'S SHOCKING

TO OUTSIDERS:

SEEMS NORMAL:

TO INSIDERS.

IS THIS:

WHY UNFETTERED GREED

SEEMED NORMAL:

TO BANKERS?

AND IF SO, WHO WAS

THE CULT LEADER HERE?

THIS IS:

MILTON FRIEDMAN.

WE WERE TOLD THA HE WAS THE WORLD'S

MOST INFLUENTIAL

ECONOMIST.

DID GOVERNMENT PLAY

A ROLE IN THIS?

VERY LITTLE.

ONLY BY KEEPING:

THE ROAD CLEAR:

FOR HUMAN GREED:

AND SELF-INTERES TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE

OF THE CONSUMER.

IN THIS BOOK, FRIEDMAN USED

THE WORD FREEDOM

374 TIMES.

BUT BY FREEDOM,

HE DIDN'T MEAN THIS.

HE MEANT THIS--

THE FREEDOM:

OF CORPORATIONS:

TO PROFIT,

NO MATTER:

THE RISK TO PEOPLE

AND WITHOUT INTERFERENCE

FROM GOVERNMENT.

DR. MILTON FRIEDMAN--

A SCIENTIST,

A CAREFUL THINKER

AND A GREAT TEACHER--

George W. Bush:

A HERO OF FREEDOM--

MILTON FRIEDMAN.

I SOUGHT OUT DR. FRIEDMAN

AND HAD THE GREAT PLEASURE

AND PRIVILEGE:

OF MEETING HIM:

AND HIS ECONOMIST WIFE ROSE.

WE'VE ALL

BECOME FRIENDS,

AND NOW:

I CALL HIM MILTON.

IF WE WANTED TO UNDERSTAND

THE BANKERS' MINDSET,

WE NEEDED TO FIND

THE GURU OF GREED.

THERE WAS:

ONLY ONE PROBLEM.

BUT THOUGH FRIEDMAN

HAD NOW ASCENDED,

HIS FOLLOWERS CARRIED

THE FLAME.

OKAY, SO WE SHOULD

GO IN THERE?

- YEAH.

- GREAT. THANK YOU.

UNCLE MILTY I CALL HIM.

THESE GUYS BELONG

TO FREE-MARKET THINK TANKS

WHICH HAVE SPENT BILLIONS

OF CORPORATE DOLLARS

TRYING TO MAKE:

US ALL BELIEVE:

THAT IF WE JUS LET CORPORATIONS

DO WHAT THEY WANT,

EVERYTHING WILL:

WORK OUT GREAT.

WE'RE KIND OF

ON A QUEST.

WE WAN TO FIX THE WORLD

AND WE WANT TO KNOW

HOW TO DO IT.

PRIVATE PROPERTY,

RULE OF LAW:

AND A MARKET UNRESTRICTED

BY GOVERNMEN REGULATION AND CONTROL.

WHEN WE SEE:

COMPANIES DEMONIZED,

WE SHOULD WORK:

AGAINST THAT.

WHEN WE SEE:

THE FREE-MARKE SYSTEM CASTIGATED

WE MUST WORK:

AGAINST THAT.

MORE WEALTH LEADS

TO GREATER EFFICIENCY,

GREATER INNOVATION

AND, BASICALLY,

ALL GOOD THINGS.

- WEALTH.

- MONEY.

- PRIVATIZATION.

- WEALTH.

- MONEY.

- INDIVIDUALIST FREEDOM.

- PRIVATIZATION.

- FREE MARKETS.

- OWNERSHIP.

- AND A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY.

CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM.

WEALTH AND PROSPERITY.

WE WERE GETTING:

THE MESSAGE,

AND SO WERE:

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