[ExI] check this, milton friedman 30 years ago sees the future

[Fred C. Moulton]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:21 -0800, spike wrote:

> Talk about foretelling the future...
> This will take less than 3 minutes, but should make us all stop and
> think.
> 	
> http://www.nmatv.com/video/1115/Milton-Friedman-and-Phil-Donahue--1979 

Well it is an interesting piece however I can think of possibly one
place to quibble. Friedman said "The great achievements of civilization
have not come from government bureaus" and this might be a bit ambiguous
since it depends on what counts as a great achievement.  If you think
that the work that Walter Reed did in demonstrating the accuracy of the
suggestion made years previously by Dr. Carlos Finlay about insect
transmission of yellow fever by testing mosquito exposure in Cuba was a
great achievement and since Dr. Reed was working for the U.S. Army then
it was a great achievement from a government bureau.  Of course some
people might not think that Reed's work counts as a great achievement.
I am still not sure how I classify it.

Which is why is it generally a good idea to include weasel words such as
"generally" and "typically" and "commonly".  Usually this is the case.

Fred