Posted on 01/09/2012 7:05:57 PM PST by chessplayer
The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing. It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.
The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little.
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We snoozed; didn’t want to work hard. Relied on house-building to drive the economy and trade by trade watched the jobs go to illegals.
Now, we wonder where our country went.
The first squeezings of capital were fairly painless- then many of us wanted jobs and could no longer find the high-paying jobs.
Now, most of us are scrambling here in middle earth.
If we don’t reverse it now, it will be too late.
It’s not “dying”....it is being slowly murdered!
Death by a thousand cuts.
It so depresses me. My son who got popped in Iraq was a promising mechanical engineering student. My young one is a budding machinist/welder. We’re from old German stock, so we value the trades. I’m a hack, but I can forge and heat treat something good enough to get by and enjoy woodworking as well. I can solder, braze or make a simple transistor circuit if I have to.
What the hell has happened to us? Do a search on Google Books for Popular Mechanics and look what kids were encouraged to do back in the day.
So sorry for your loss. Don’t lose hope. I believe the trades will be EXTREMELY valuable in the future, and all the elitists will be starving, or nearly, trying to figure out how to survive....just a hunch.
I used to live in MA and work for a U. and I’m not sure if you are making it up or not.
Sorry to read of your loss.
I too wonder why many of my neighbors cannot bother with fixing simple things on their own. With current tax levels it doesn’t make sense to hire someone to do simple tasks that should be part of most people’s skill set.
“What happened to our industrial base:
1 Big Labor
2 Big Labor
3 Big Labor
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That about does it. There are probably a few others; but you get the idea.”
I think you missed a few:
20 Big Labor
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Ok, now we have it covered.
1 Big Labor
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YOU forgot some others.....
20 Big Government (regulations!)
21 Big Government (regulations!)
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“So sorry for your loss. Don’t lose hope. I believe the trades will be EXTREMELY valuable in the future, and all the elitists will be starving, or nearly, trying to figure out how to survive....just a hunch.”
Actually, the young kid is pretty versatile and has an affinity for firearms. Not a gunsmith of the old school, but he seems to know what makes them work and can do repairs. That may be a useful talent in the near future eh?
The elder one was destined to be a gun designer but that’s history.
“15 Big Labor
16 Big Labor
17 Big Labor
18 Big Labor
19 Big Labor
YOU forgot some others.....
20 Big Government (regulations!)
21 Big Government (regulations!)”
Yea, but I think that you missed a few before blaming government...
21 Big Labor
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25 Big Labor
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oh yea, and 20 Big Labor. Forgot that one.
Most of the service business revenues come from customers who depend on one of the various levels of government for their incomes. Most people who are very active in politics (any political party) are dependent on incomes from government.
First post industrial nation?
I don’t think so...the England beat us to that by 30 years.
America is still pretty impressive in the ag sector, weapons, aerospace, and computer chips...for now.
Whatever became of the “buggy whip” people? The fools didn’t realize that what goes around comes around until their hightech jobs went overseas.
I don't think that is true. We export more air in empty shipping containers than anything else.
There are less than a half dozen other occupied homes within a three mile radius of me (none within 3/4 of a mile), and there’s a local zoning ordinance (called a “law”) against manufacturing anything, no matter what or how small the scale, or doing any kind of automotive work. As for “main street” or empty industrial parks, forget that. The most common killer of new businesses is high flooring cost. ...also land use regs that make it unfeasible to build or grow anything.
Have fun. Enjoy the slide.
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