In IEEE-USA Today’s Engineer, February 9, 2012
There has been a lot of action, articles and discussion recently about legislation that proponents at one extreme offered would save hundreds of thousands of jobs and add between $50B and $250B to the U.S. economy per year, and detractors at the other extreme argued would turn the United States into a police state and terminate the first and fourth amendments to the Constitution. As with many things in life, the truth lies somewhere in between.