The Chicago thing is pretty misleading; he talks about how when a project goes condo people lose their home. First, the people aren't thrown out on the street, they still get free/reduced price housing (which brings the question of ownership into question to begin with), and they get the fuck out of a South Side project building. Projects like the ones in the movie have been an almost universal failure, I've seen it in person, they are not pleasant places. Closing down the projects is a net positive, hell it is almost a total positive.
I think Milton Friedman and the Kinkos guys make a lot of sense, and on the other side I think the issues raised about lobbying for subsidies is also very good. Overall though, Friedman is right, the government is, in the end, elected, and until people stand up and actually vote people who they feel are being bought out of office, I don't think they should be criticizing anybody other than those politicians.
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