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No, neither can I.
During the height of the Great Depression, the Governor of Michigan visited Roosevelt in the White House. He told Roosevelt that 100 people a week were found dead from starvation on the streets of Detroit. He begged Roosevelt to do something, anything, to help the people of his state. And Roosevelt did. Friedman? He would have carefully explained to the poor, deluded governor that markets fluctuate and that as long as markets are free they are eventually self-correcting.
At which point the distraught governor would have presumably pulled his pistol and blown out Friedman's dessicated brains.
