"What effect must it have on a nation if it learns no foreign languages? Probably much the same as that which a total withdrawal from society has upon an individual." --G.C. Lichtenberg
What kills me is that Friedman can say that, as cheaper-wage countries, such as China, improve the quality of their workers and infrastructure, Mexico must either invest heavily in its own or lose out, while saying nothing about the exact same situation here in the U.S. We're losing jobs here because our stratospheric wages render us less competitive than workers from other countries. Do we have some kind of magic bullet or something that Friedman isn't telling us about?
