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Jumat, 26 September 2014

John Phillips: Detroit Gave the World Freedom, Literal and Figurative

John Phillips: Detroit Gave the World Freedom, Literal and Figurative


I live in a locale where it is fashionable—maybe mandatory—to excoriate the federal government for pretty much everything, from bark-beetle infestations to the “pernicious” pasteurization of milk to the disappearance of well-managed whorehouses where you could smoke before and after, well, anything at all. One particularly incendiary conversation starter is the government bailout of Chrysler and GM, despite an outcome so buoyant that it would float an armada of warships. In fact, I’ve started defending the bailout on a war-metaphor basis. For one thing, during World War II, Detroit was as vital to victory as our men and women in uniform. READ MORE ››






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