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Old 02-02-2008, 12:58 PM
 
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Old 02-02-2008, 08:16 PM
 
Location: Lake Worth, Fl
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This thread sure has evolved.
And thank goodness it did, the discussion to start this thread was going no where.

Manufacturing is not the future of this country. Everyone always makes a big deal about these manufacturing, call center, processing jobs going away. These jobs went away because it was there time. We as a country must evolve. Sure it hurts in the short term. Bringing back dirty, low paying industry is not the way. We need to be leaders in Research and Development of new technologies.

In any company the people who get paid the most are the thinkers. That is what the US must become.

Breaking from my Republican party, the government should not create legislation to limit business but create legislation to increase educational funding. Our children must be cutting edge in science and Math. For anyone who needs help sleeping

Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times "Foreign Affairs" columnist and author of "The World Is Flat

its pretty dry but a great book. It opened my eyes. I use to a big fan of protectionism.
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Old 02-04-2008, 04:30 PM
 
Location: The land of erternal summer to Murfreesboro, TN
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And thank goodness it did, the discussion to start this thread was going no where.

Manufacturing is not the future of this country. Everyone always makes a big deal about these manufacturing, call center, processing jobs going away. These jobs went away because it was there time. We as a country must evolve. Sure it hurts in the short term. Bringing back dirty, low paying industry is not the way. We need to be leaders in Research and Development of new technologies.

In any company the people who get paid the most are the thinkers. That is what the US must become.

Breaking from my Republican party, the government should not create legislation to limit business but create legislation to increase educational funding. Our children must be cutting edge in science and Math. For anyone who needs help sleeping

Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times "Foreign Affairs" columnist and author of "The World Is Flat

its pretty dry but a great book. It opened my eyes. I use to a big fan of protectionism.
I agree with you, but what about those that don't fit into the tech mold? Is it not possible to maintain some industry as well.
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Old 02-05-2008, 06:57 AM
 
Location: Lake Worth, Fl
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Keeping industries around to just keep some people employed will not work and not because we do not want them to but the global market will not allow it. Those business will just go out of business, like blacksmiths. I would love to go back to my fathers days and work for 1 company for my whole life its what my dad always preached to me. Go to college then work for a solid company and retire.

Those days are long gone. I started on the plan and got it quickly trashed when i got laid off a few years later. So I had to retrain. It was that or do a service job. Which I do not look down on I just could not survive on the wages.

Its a real change what I will preaching to my son. The best I can do is make sure he does really well in school and tell him to be flexible because there really is no "plan" anymore.
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Old 04-04-2008, 02:33 PM
 
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Is there an update on this news?
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