Reply #1: An interesting read. [View All]

Martin Hutchinson is a "free market" labor advocate, sounds like a contradiction and it is. He combines the ridiculous assumption made by Friedman and his cohorts with a keen understanding of the need for a Middle Class to ensure a vibrant economy. He is anti-socialism but pro-labor. A very odd mixture where he seems to contradict himself trying to stretch his "free market" philosophy to justify the need for a strong labor movement.

I suppose many of Friedman's converts will be straddling this fence in order to justify their "free market" ideologies while realizing that destroying a Democracy's Middle Class has serious repercussions for the economy.

He almost sees the light, if he would only take off those Friedman glasses.