for those not familiar with the milton friedman quote. he was expressing china. they were expressing how high the unemployment rate because they had everybody digging with shovels. he would you can decrease it even more if everybody addition with spoons. >> another tidbit. >> gaining vengeance by not mentioning the fact i have a series of studies on green jobs. you can find them on the website. i surveyed the experiences of europe to try to implement green energy green jobs agenda. we're going to give kate the opportunity to bat cleanup. jimmy will be our next speaker. he has a quite long bio, co-founder and executive vice president at clean line energy, participates in all aspects of the country's portfolio. he has worked for more than 20 years in public and private sectors. as i said i'm not going to challenge my reading skills going through his entire biobut it's available in conference materials. since we're running tight on time and we want to have time for q&a, jimmy, the floor is yours. >> thank you very much. thanks for having me. this is a good issue to

how do you dismantle the social safety net when most of the people love it it's wildly popular milton friedman new and it's one nine hundred sixty two book capitalism and freedom friedman wrote there is enormous inertia a tyranny of the status quo in private and especially government arrangements only our crisis actual or perceived produces real change. these crises allowed friedman and his economic team to dismantle governments around the world they were brought in as consultants in chile for example of many of the former soviet states the results were disasters chile became a dictatorship privatization social security there was a disaster still trying to dig out from underneath many of the former soviet states are still struggling under this rapid shock therapy as naomi klein points out in her book the shock doctrine some of the most infamous human rights violations of this era which have tended to be viewed as sadistic acts carried out by undemocratic regimes were in fact either committed with the deliberate intent of terrorizing the public or actively are in a scene harnessed to prepare th

s instead of serving the the employees and the company started serving only the stockholders milton friedman in one thousand nine hundred seventy two who tried to put this prospect forward that we would only serve shareholders of whom a large portion should be management and it was for decades as the secretary has said and then suddenly it was just embraced and so we sit out here with with lots of signs of break each but we don't see it with a shortage of ideas whether they be nathalie's on the macro side the secretaries on the employment side what we think we lack completely is this fairness and that's why the efforts of heather and natalie are especially important and i and the secretary can talk about the theories and the solutions but they are actually down there talking to the women and men who are being so adversely affected now all natalie the were also. and gauged in wars around the world church number sixteen here shows this is one of the reasons why our debt is so i is because our to our defense budget has just gone off the scale. war spending a significant part of our economy how

and when we challenged this milton friedman said he would join a brief challenging him only if the wordainer wasn't in the brief. but when congress unanimously extended this term was more than $6 million of money contributed by the disney corporation. and that's just one of 10,000 examples we could point to where congress bends towards the money. >> that bending, that thousands of arcs that happen all the time. the proposal that you have made, and i -- before -- i would like for you to describe it to people. the democracy vouchers in a way that is accessible and then we can talk about how we get there. so if the real problem we have is that we have a congress dependant on the funders. it's a tiny slice of the top 1% to fun our campaigns. the solution to that problem is to find a way to make it so that the funners are now the people. and the proposal that i put forward says let's take the first 50 dollars of tax, and rebate it in the form of a democracy voucher. and you can use that voucher to give to any congressional candidate if that candidate agrees to fund his or her campaign, plus

like milton friedman says, don't wait for the right people to get elected.eet the conditions by which the wrong people are forced to do the right thing. this e-mail from tim long. enjoy reading -- this tweet -- enjoy reading mr. steyn's work but can't reconcile respect for his riding with him hosting for a demagogue like rush limbaugh. >> guest: many people who criticize russia doesn't listen to him. he has great with. you can do that three of the day without being witty, without being able to see the comedy in your own side. to connect that to the passage you read, what people resent about him is he doesn't subscribe to the niceties of the broader culture. this is the difficulty for the right. i guest host for him and i love guest hosting for him and every time my guest host a couple people say would you like to do your own talk-radio show and i say the right doesn't need one. we have conquered that market. we have a handle on it. it would make more sense if some guy wants to host the three are talk radio show and decide you wants to write a sitcom or make

hollowed out america and destroyed our middle class they've watched should cog go school because milton and tom friedman economic policies played out by the i.m.f. and the world bank and in countries from chile to argentina to what the republican party is doing right now in the united states and they've seen it destroy the state and nation national economies they're smart enough to know that they want no part of our stupidity they'll let us continue to worship reagan in the friedmans but they're going their own way which ironically was the way we went from the one nine hundred forty s. until the reagan revolution back in those days when america led the world in growth and prosperity back in the days before we drank ronald reagan's kool-aid and got stupid the rest of us americans who still want to live in a nation that can provide economic prosperity to a vast middle class we have a big job ahead of us if we don't take back our government and our economy soon by cracking down on job outsourcers by reining in wall street by rolling back the reagan tax cuts and by and forcing the sherman act to break up bi

have his staffers take quote out of milton friedman books, margaret thatcher speech.nd, why can't he connect to the base? why can't he put a message together? >> i think the blocking and tackling is actually okay. to extend the metaphor, he can't make the deep pass. can't strike a knockout blow. he's not very lyrical in his speeches, there's not a lot of poetry in his campaigning, and that's who he is. i mean, this is a guy whose whole public experience and private experience is about turning things around. and that's a campaign he's running. i thought, okay, this is a big acceptance speech after important victories, fire wall held in michigan and another fire wall holds. he's got to make a case for why only he can be the nominee and ultimately can beat president obama. and we got a bit more of the same. and i think i finally realized, he wants to play within himself. i think the argument he made yesterday which is i've made mistakes, i'm not going to turn things to turn the base to excite the base. it was both a message to donors, look, i get it, i'm going to retrenc

like milton friedman says, don't wait for the right people to get elected; create the conditions wherebyng people are forced to do the right thing." this e-mail from tim long: enjoy reading -- i'm sorry, this tweet, enjoy reading mr. steyn's work but can't reconcile for his writing/thinking with posting for a demagogue like rush. [laughter] >> guest: well, rush isn't a demagogue, and many of the people who criticize rush don't listen to him that much. he's actually a very funny guy. he has great wit. you can't do that thing three hours a day for 20 years without being, without great wit and without being able to see the comedy in your own side. what -- to connect that to the passage you read, i think what people resent about rush is that he doesn't, he doesn't subscribe to the niceties of the broader culture. and i think this is the difficulty for the right. i guest host for rush, and i love guest hosting for rush. and every time i guest host for rush, you know, a couple people say, well, wouldn't you like to do your own, you know, three-hour talk radio show? and i say, no, the right doe

we have been told since the days that milton friedman first hit the scene that regulations were a problem in our economy and that having rules to protect health and safety and fairness simply were disrupting the market and we need to get rid of these job-killing regulations, what our republican friends call them all the time, rather than commonsense protections to protect people. so we got rid of those things. we didn't enforce the laws we already did have. we shrank government to the point because we didn't want to pay any taxes, we shrank government to the point where government couldn't even afford itself. so we didn't have the people to make sure that consumers were being treated fairly. that mortgages were fair and that rules were being abided by. and then as the technology and everything changed, we didn't change it, we weren't able to change regulation so it would keep up-to-date with the necessity of the market. what i have in mind now is the heroic figure named brooksly barn who tried to tell them this is opec insurance market, credit default swap market that needed to be regulat

if you cannot believe that, i mean, we may as well speculates, what if obama starts reading milton friedmana free market theet. i guess it could happen. i guess there's nothing you could be more confident about. i've said this before, this is the place to say it. we should all be having extra cocktails' tonight. right-wingers have triumphed. in 2008, just four years ago, one of our candidates was pro- choice and another was against clinton being impeached, if one of them voted against the clinton tax cuts, wanted amnesty for illegals, and that was the one that we ran. there are no rockefeller republicans left. now it's a matter of degrees. if you looked at them only on the issues and not which one gets the audience excited by attacking the media or denounces obama colonialism, romney of the four remaining is the most conservative, as the strongest position on illegal immigration. after obamacare, the single most important issue is illegal immigration. if we move back, the entire country goes the way of california, where no republican ever gets elected. the speaker before me is brilliant and