This got posted on CRC-Voices:

“The record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free enterprise system.”
Milton Freedman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

I understand that we are all prone to overstatement. I also understand that there are systems that are relatively better and systems that are relatively worse and that justice must have a shape. But that statement as it stands is simply idolatrous.