[oceanview]

well, at least we agree on that, if US corporate executives weren't so hell bent on sending these jobs out of the US and filling their own pockets with the cost savings, these countries would not on their own be able to develop these same industries which would compete with the US ones a lower cost profile.

[Cronos]

well, at least we agree on that, if US corporate executives weren't so hell bent on sending these jobs out of the US and filling their own pockets with the cost savings, these countries would not on their own be able to develop these same industries which would compete with the US ones a lower cost profileThey probably would, but not in the short time it has taken them. Check out Malaysia's car industry or Korea's electronics. The only way out for us is the way we managed to hit back at Japan -- by being more innovative, by not resting on our accomplishments and expecting everything to fall in our laps. The dot com era created too much of expectations, folks who called themselves tech 'experts' as they could code in HTML.