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U.S. workers who aren't designing computer chips or answering telephones will be working on the next level of high technology, such as nanotechnology, the science of manipulating atoms or molecules for commercial application, Commerce Department Undersecretary Phillip Bond said in an interview.

What gives this person the idea that the "next level of high technology" will be created here either?

In addition, Mr. Greenspan's comment, "New jobs will replace old ones, as they always have" is similar in nature..

What exactly makes him believe that these "new" jobs will be created here? Blind faith in Free Market ideology?

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What exactly makes him believe that these "new" jobs will be created here? Blind faith in Free Market ideology?

Yes. He is an "objectivist" - a follower of this guru for adolescents Ayn Rand.