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To: Reaganesque

Remember when these types of innovation came from IBM, Honeywell, General Electric, etc?
Remember when an American kid could get an engineering degree and have a resonable expectation of a job and a good career?

Not to worry, England travelled down this path, and the social welfare state has worked real well for them, right?


12 posted on 12/19/2007 10:38:18 AM PST by brownsfan (America has "jumped the shark")
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To: brownsfan

Remember when the unions and lawyers weren’t an anchor around the neck of American industry?


14 posted on 12/19/2007 10:41:06 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: brownsfan

The Israelis should have been working on this to bankrupt their enemies.


20 posted on 12/19/2007 10:44:54 AM PST by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: brownsfan

Remember when government regulation and taxation didn’t drive businesses overseas?


67 posted on 12/19/2007 12:26:56 PM PST by Durus ("Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." JFK)
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To: brownsfan

Once upon a time our immigration policies were designed to skim off the cream of the world’s universities. Now they are designed to pull the dregs out from under the world’s societies or to take from the societies that are all dregs.


90 posted on 12/19/2007 3:05:06 PM PST by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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