Friedman and "freedom to Choose", my my. Have a look what laissez faire economics are doing in America at the moment.
As for the good old american "choice" argument its a merely a rhetorical device unless the choices are real and the people making them are fully informed - which most are not.
This argument is usually trotted out to blame people for the state they are in as in "He chose to become a gang member, and now has to take the consequences of his decision." - when handing out a mandatory sentence or whatever.
The flaw in the argument is that if a kid grows up in a gang infested neighborhood, where all "successful" people are gang members, and no alternatives appear to present themselves, it's not really an informed choice between alternatives is it? For example, could the kid have chosen to go to medical school?, or law school? Definitely not.
As our poet laureate Les Murray said, "the ultimate crime in Australia is to give people a rotten education - and then blame them for it."
Good to see you doing something about your education Frozo.