Penta-gone.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
American Prospect, The, May, 2006 by Ullmann John E.
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IN AN OTHERWISE USEFUL account, Harold Meyerson says in "Not Your Father's Detroit" [April] that, after World War II, "our technological innovation, often spurred by the investment of federal defense dollars, was second to none, and those innovations were turned into products at factories here in the United States." No, they were not.
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It was exactly the "federal defense dollars" that quickly pre-empted the technological innovation, virtually redefining it in military terms and, in effect, kicking off our industrial decline. The trend accelerated after ...
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