I really don't know what this had to do with my post?
It's related to the stimulus package, government spending generally and how we get ourselves out of this mess.
It's Obama admitting that government spending per se isn't going to get us out of this mess. [even though he initially seemed to think they might by throwing money to infrastructure projects]
I'm not saying either that all government is bad nor did Friedman [I think at least] imply that it was. Rather, the implication that throwing money at a problem isn't going to solve it and using a metaphor he described why it wouldn't.