“One day I saw a newspaper headline reporting that the President suggested that if Americans had to buy their bomb shelters, rather than being provided with the

“One day I saw a newspaper headline reporting that the President suggested that if Americans had to buy their bomb shelters, rather than being provided with them by the government, they'd take better care of them, an idea which made me furious. Logically, each of us should own a submarine, a jet fighter, and so forth.” — Philip K. Dick, describing the inspiration for his 1955 short story Foster, You're Dead!¹ 1. <https://web.archive.org/web/20150419181303/http://american-buddha.com/dick.phildickreader.17.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20150419181303/http://american-b...>