This time is [not] different, but where's that Wile E. Coyote Moment?

[Michael Bailey]

 alice wellintown  wrote:

> The truth is that America does make things of value, not only to
> Americans, but also to the world. While most Americans complain that
> everything is made in China, and while the press continues to give
> voice to the idiots who say that the Americans are owned by, in a new
> cold war with, are competing with China, this is not the reality. The
> Americans don't make toys or shoes or clothes because they choose to
> make helicopters and tractors, make math and physics and chemistry
> into technologies, to engineer and innovate, and this makes sesne
> because the US has intensity not in labor, where China has its
> intensity, but in an educated and highly skilled and productive
> workforce.


which the vulture capitalists are training in adaptability, resourcefulness
and ingenuity by being heartless pricks and moving their cheese...

does that strategy work better than good pay & benefits and a commitment to
a safe and fair workplace?  personally i doubt it but ayn rand would eat it
up

hmmm, Daily Kos article sez China's agencies are busy downgrading US credit
rating, hope that doesn't mean anything bad!
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