Finally, I also feel that many of our American friends here could also make invaluable contributions to this by also writing to them, to show them that this individual do not represent necessarily the views of most influential Americans. Bless your heart if you do! Thanks. :-)
Speaking of the original publication in Ideas on Liberty by the Foundation for Economic Education: I, for one, have for years made "invaluable contributions" to this institution. As in tax-deductable monetary donations. FEE publishes some of the finest writing around on economics and the power of individual freedom, and this article does not change my opinion of them.
In fact, I think some of you could learn a couple things if you read the article as something other than "propaganda" of "the enemy."
First, you would hear someone other than me say that clearly the measurement system used is not a **major** factor in a country's economic success, or the USA would not be the economic power that it is.
Second, you would read something that should give you something to cheer about: "And that is why, so long as Americans defend their freedom, the
measurement issue will ... be settled at the check-out counter, in grocery stores and kitchens, on the desks of editors and draftsmen, on shop floors, ..."
In other words, aside from a few inevitable anti-metricationists who will fight metrication in any form (and lose), most people will accept metric in time as long as it is not forced on them.
Jim Elwell
