But the problem is that government is necessary to make the use of metric units legal, if not required. This is why it is so important to update the FPLA, for example. Mark On Apr 23, 2016 3:46 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
Mark (Henschel)-- It is disappointing that latter-day Democrats, who claim to be "progressive," have been useless as far as promoting the metric system is concerned. The modern U.S. movement started in the 1970s with Republican Gerald Ford, but Republican Ronald Reagan slowed it down. However, businessmen of both parties are now largely in support of metrication because of international advantages. Barack Obama has been useless. Nevertheless, as I have written before, it may be best for the government to keep out of it and let business drive the movement. That way, there isn't the ignorant public resistance encountered. Metrication just happens without opposition. If the U.S. government were as efficient as the Australian government, we wouldn't have to worry, but in the last decade more more, the U.S. bureaucracy has become incompetent and corrupt. An example of recent conversation, without much government involvement, is the complete conversion of the lighting industry to the use of lumens and kelvins, driven by Compact Fluorescent Lights, units which had been virtually unknown to the public before, but you didn't hear any resistance to the conversion on January 1, 2015. --Martin Morrison _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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