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Evo jedan ilustrativni primjer koliko je pojam liberalizam danas iskrivljen. S jedne strane je naš “liberal” i (prema potrebi) zagovornik tržišta, a s druge Milton Friedman:

Slobodno tržište

Nije nam lako, ali za svakog građana bolje je da mi o tome odlučujemo. Boljeg rješenja nema.

– Radimir Čačić o vođenju države i gospodarstva na 11. izbornom Saboru HNS-a.

What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.

– Milton Friedman, Wall Street Journal, 18.05.1961.

Zdravstvo

Mora se ući u razvojni ciklus i pritom srezati neproduktivna potrošnja i koliko god je moguće zaštititi najugroženiji sloj stanovništva. U mirovinskom i zdravstvenom sustavu bitnih reformi neće biti, dok se u obrazovnom sustavu ide na praćenje tržišta rada.

Radimir Čačić, RTL, 28.03.2012.

It is taken for granted that workers should receive their pay partly in kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How come? Why single out medical care? Surely food is no less essential to life than medical care. Why is it not at least as logical for workers to be required to buy their food at the company store as to be required to buy their medical care at the company store?

– Milton Friedman piše protiv plana zdravstvene reforme Hillary Clinton
WSJ, 13.02.1993.

Državna potrošnja

Vlada je rast BDP-a u 2012. utemeljila na projekciji rasta kapitalnih investicija za 7,4 posto, a kako je gospodarstvo izračunalo da bi investicije trebale zapravo pasti u tekućoj godini, to zapravo znači da će se planirane investicije morati povećati za 9,4 posto.

– Vladin plan investicija za 2012.

Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.

– Milton Friedman, WSJ, 15.07.1995.

Slobodna trgovina i poštena trgovina

Država se mora boriti protiv enormnih profita koje poslovne banke ostvaruju na njoj i njenim građanima.

– Okrugli stol HNS-a, Lider Press, 12. travanj 2011.

‘Fair’ is in the eye of the beholder; free is the verdict of the market. (The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.)

– Milton Friedman, WSJ, 07.03.1996.