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Some dead professor, right? Boy, giving taxes to charter school systems is giving us great schools, isn't it? Handing over our pensions to private enterprise, how's that working? And life without unions? Why, we're happy as hogs, and really rich! Was Friedman right about Enron? Right about Halliburton in Iraq? About all those free contractors deciding how to torture? Congress seems to be working almost exclusively on the "market system." How's it working for the people? Broadband: we're the most libertarian about massive conglomerates having the monopoly on supplying it, but we are falling further and further behind the world. Friedman may have been a useful tonic back in the '70s. But we've got control of inflation now: the solution is, you give all the surplus to the CEOs, and they soak up inflation by buying bigger and bigger yachts. And if there's any extra left over, build tanks with it. Can't have enough tanks.
Oh, and the information explosion is really doing great. It's already built 3D graphics and music stings on FOX.
Sure, he could argue. But he was almost completely wrong.
