‘Peace: Challenge and Opportunity’
Your editorial of Dec. 14 remarked upon the results of a study indicating that the Los Angeles area can survive economically even if military spending is cut back significantly. That Los Angeles could prosper as something other than a center of military production is no surprise to the members of Jobs With Peace who, in 1984, won the ballot initiative that forced Los Angeles to authorize the study. Long-term prosperity not only can be based on non-military commerce, it must be.
Now that military spending and tax cuts for the wealthy have exhausted the nation’s financial resources, Los Angeles will be forced to build a peacetime economic base. Perhaps the Proposition X study, opposed by The Times and many others in the city’s leadership, will provide guidance as to how this can be done.
RICHARD DAWSON
Member, Jobs With Peace
Los Angeles
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