The Carpenters Who Build Your House Aren't Equipped to Tell You How to Live In It

Here's a letter to the Los Angeles Times:

Harold Meyerson proposes that California's government implement an "industrial policy" ("Reviving California's economy: Meg Whitman versus Jerry Brown," August 18).  As some evidence of the wisdom of his proposal, Mr. Meyerson writes that "it was investments by Pat Brown, California's greatest governor, in the state's universities, roads and water systems that made the state's economy the marvel of the world for much of the second half of the 20th...