Maggie's Farm

While my stack of reading material always gets replenished every December, I probably won't wait to add this one to it. The summary notes a number of problems I saw from the inside as early as the late-'70s. Indeed, a couple of my professors recognised some of this half a decade earlier.

The basic attitude tends to pervade most Federal programs. It still is the basic problem with the transportation program, and we're paying dearly for it. It is telling that neither of the two movies on the same screen, nor their advocates, will even discuss this; but such is the premeditated self-deception of policy advocacy these days.

Nor is the attitude new one. I recently read an account of US intelligence in the Japanese community on the West Coast during the 1930s. If you're interested in reading it, look up Chapter 3 of Joe Rochefort's War, published by the Naval Institute Press a few years back.