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Race, you can't be serious. Please read SOMETHING before you post. Try reading Michael Porter's "The Competitive Advantage of Nations," which is a MASSIVE study of 10 countries (U.S., Br., France, It., Japan, Switz, Germany, Sweden, and a couple of others) and their competitive advantage.

The U.S. holds the lead in an overwhelming number of categories, especially when you consider that there are "clusters" of industrialization which involve not just one job that can be "farmed out," but networks that require people to be in the same vicinity, talk on a personal basis, and interact regularly. This simply doesn't come from India or China. The U.S. lead is in virtually EVERY major high-tech area, glass, fiber, telecom, computers, hardware, software, engineering, on and on. Sweden has a slight lead in mining and ship manufacturing. Italy has the world's market in tiles.

No one needs "seek" an American solution because it is the ONLY solution. We account for 80% of the world's Nobel Prizes in the hard sciences (including many foreign-born immigrants who now live here); we dominate, utterly dominate, the world soft-drive and hard-drive industries. We so control CONTENT on computers that it's not funny. This is the future---CONTENT and speed, and we own this.

read?

I have been reading the material to retrain myself, that is what I spend my time reading, and allI dare to read now are the want ads!!

22 weeks, and people throw out cliches to people like me!

I swear, all these cheerleaders must have never worked in manufacturing!

No Offense, I know you are trying to help, but I am ready to give up on all the lies/half-truths I was taught as a child and up about the US being the world's leader in manufacturing, I saw too much in my 43 years, and being from Ct, I honestly worked for 2 companies that are now in China, 3 that are out of business otherwise.

I dont see any of this as bneing a simple market caused condition, I clearly see this as the result of politics supporting big business decisions.

There was a day when a business had a responsibility to the peope it employed and the township it was in. To move to another area just to make a bigger buck, and for no other reason was considered a form of treason because of the broken lives it left behind, and the shattered hopes and dreams.

We can lay the blame at the feet of many reasons, but when people try to tell me the problem is people like me whining about it, when in reality all we are doing is pointing out the emperor has no clothes...

Why cant people see? We have sent overseas the means to manufacture, the very machines that will be used against us!! The very industries that were our bread and butter that will be used to put ur remaining buisinesses out on the street because they are funded by Communist or Fascist countries artificially propping up their industries with government monies while we try to do it with Persoan money of the business owner!

We cannot compete against this unless we impose tariffs on imported goods!!