"Son, I Want You To Grow Up to Be a Pipefitter"

Here's a letter of mine published in today's Washington Post:

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

John Tkacik [letters, April 19:] writes that "the most unsettling aspect of China's economic power is its manufacturing output. According to the latest figures in the CIA's World Factbook, industry accounts for about 22 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product and about 49 percent of China's." Because he doesn't elaborate, Mr. Tkacik apparently believes that this fact speaks for itself and that its...