Word: friedman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When people talk about compulsory national service," says Milton J. Friedman, the bantam cock of conservative economics, "it brings to mind Hitler's Jugend. It's so much warmed-over collectivism packaged to look like draft reform...
Naturally the result is flawless. Director Arthur Friedman gives us a Pooh that is moving, tender, light, and at times bursting with social import. Friedman establishes in the course of his entertainment an extraordinary communion with A.A.'s thought patterns; it is as if the man himself were reading his stories aloud...
Briefly, the conception is this: a narrator (Friedman) to read the stories; actors to speak the lines; and slides to illustrate the plot. The combined effect is a multi-dimensional, quasi-psychedelic montage of light and sound embracing the untampered-with essence of Edward Bear...
...Friedman's rebuttal is that officers, not enlisted men, can become politically dangerous and that officers for a volunteer army can be recruited in the same democratic way employed now -- by an elaborate system of geographic distribution controlled by admissions officers at West Point, and by the ROTC program. "People are forever saying that a conscript army full of unwilling soldiers is a safeguard against a military take-over," Friedman says. "They forget that the army behind Napoleon was a conscript army. In fact the word conscript was coined during the French Revolution...
...most politically potent argument for a volunteer army is a slogan: "The soldier is worth his hire." Friedman says that it is plainly unfair to punish a man by drafting him and then punish him a second time by forcing him to accept substandard wage. Again he argues from history: "Was not one of the great gains in the progress of civilization the conversion of taxes in kind to taxes in money? The elimination of the power of the noble or the sovereign to exact compulsory servitude...