Gary Wolfram, in a commentary on The Business & Media Institute website, notes: Today, in the year Friedman would have turned 98 years old, we are even more in need of a resurgence and rediscovery of his ideas. Examples of this need abound in the economy, education and other realms of public policy. As Wolfram points out, Friedman understood the inherent dangers in granting government greater control over our lives “for our own good” when he wrote in Free to Choose: The two ideas of human freedom and economic freedom working together came to their greatest fruition in the United States. Those ideas are still very much with us. But we have been straying from them. We have been forgetting the basic truth that the greatest threat to human freedom is the concentration of power, whether in the hands of government or anyone else. We have persuaded ourselves that it is safe to grant power, provided it is for good purposes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More Friedman quotes: “The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” “Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses

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