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Cold Comfort: $10 Billion Dollars Later LA Times Says I Got it Right

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Cold Comfort: $10 Billion Dollars Later LA Times Says I Got it Right

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Today’s LA Times carries a major expose on President Reagan’s so-called Star Wars program, which I first investigated nearly 30 years ago.  The paper’s conclusion: most of the $10 billion spent to date has been wasted.

That is exactly what the experts I profiled predicted back in 1986.  Imagine what we could have done with this wasted $10 billion dollars.  I did all I could to stop this back then and at many other times. I just could not overcome the powerful combination of money and greed and deception.  See:

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About the Author /

hplotkin@plotkin.com

My published work since 1985 has focused mostly on public policy, technology, science, education and business. I’ve written more than 600 articles for a variety of magazines, journals and newspapers on these often interrelated subjects. The topics I have covered include analysis of progressive approaches to higher education, entrepreneurial trends, e-learning strategies, business management, open source software, alternative energy research and development, voting technologies, streaming media platforms, online electioneering, biotech research, patent and tax law reform, federal nanotechnology policies and tech stocks.