[Beck_isright]

Amen brother. What is the point. We are now outsourcing accounting, I.T. jobs by the boatload, and cutsomer service positions by the tens of thousands. I'm really concerned that we will be a victim of our own success because without a solid manufacturing base and with the service industry being exported one job at a time, just what the hell will we do for economic growth?????

[Black Agnes]

Good question. Course, the standard line is 'SHut up you lazy American, it's lazy people like you and UNIONS that caused the downfall of this country!'

No mention of the greedy corporations and CEO's having equal hand in said destruction.

[Arkinsaw]

Amen brother. What is the point. We are now outsourcing accounting, I.T. jobs by the boatload, and cutsomer service positions by the tens of thousands. I'm really concerned that we will be a victim of our own success because without a solid manufacturing base and with the service industry being exported one job at a time, just what the hell will we do for economic growth?????

Just wait until a few of these third-world countries nationalize all that stuff and our corporations are left holding a big old empty bag.

[monkeywrench]

"...just what the hell will we do for economic growth?????"

Haven't you heard? Why we'll do "what we do best". Whatever that is.

[Uncle Miltie]

"just what the hell will we do for economic growth?????"

A: Create new things. In the long run, computers and low cost manufacturers will reproduce any process and any thing the creative mind can come up with. NEW IDEAS are where value lies. If you cannot think, you will be competing with an Indian programmer or a Chinese factory worker.

It is a pity our schools are largely useless.