America is falling behind »
Posted By rimbaud 1 year, 6 months ago in NewsA few weeks ago, my wife and I flew from New York's Kennedy Airport to Singapore. In J.F.K.'s waiting lounge we could barely find a place to sit. Eighteen hours later, we landed at Singapore's ultramodern airport, with free Internet portals and children's play zones throughout. We felt, as we have before, like we had just flown from the Flintstones
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rimbaud1 year, 6 months ago
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Another liberal blaming the USA! If we are so bad, why do they all want to come live here? Maybe it's not a gleaming infrastructure people want, but a tradition of freedom and democracy? We might be a backward Christian nation that needs no more science than is included in the Bible, but at least we are free. Maybe the ever expanding economy is not what we need but a simpler life, with women taking care of the home and children and men bringing home the bacon. Let the foreigners in our midst make the desparate effort to learn math and science and come up with the technological advancements that do nothing to improve our real lives. Let the Chinese pollute their environment in a mad rush to progress. We've been there, done that. Are we really better off than we were in the old days?
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rimbaud1 year, 6 months ago
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US companies are investing in the emerging growth markets in Asia (they cannot afford not to). They will build AND sell there. Even the required technical and engineering skills can be had there for cheap. Only the profits will come home to Bush's "ownership sociey", those rich or smart enough to invest. Yes, those nasty corporations are us! What's good for General Motors is good for the USA! When the up and coming Chinese are driving Chevies (GMC = General Motors China) and pumping Exxon/Iran oil, all will be well for us. Jobs that must be done locally, like Agriculture and Construction, are already heavily invested in by Mexican labor. If all you have to offer is your labor, you have been devalued, unless you can invent or design products for the new growth markets. It's a natural progression for a wealthy people... let those that are hungry study math and science and work hard. We will be the gentlemen rulers of the earth.
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