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OPINION: We need to get manufacturing gears cranking again
Harold Meyerson is editor-at-large of American Prospect. This is from The Washington Post.
It was a line that spoke to, and for, a generation. In the 1967 film "The Graduate," Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin is given one word of career counseling by a shallow and corrupt grown-up at a shallow and corrupt grown-up cocktail party: "Plastics."
Forty-two years later, the line has picked...
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