Originally Posted by
Siriusowner
You want to know what differentiates America from the rest of the world ?... Its precisely that, its people !
If we continue this discussion we will never end and keep going in circles. You have your point of view and I have mine. You think we should be workers, I think we should be leaders ... You look back, I look forward, You think there's a place for the mfg. working class in the US, I think that place is China and India... Granted, there will always be blue collar workers, otherwise who would clean, cook, mow lawns, cut hair, harvest, etc... (but even those are services)... As far as mfg., I do not think there's a place for that in the US anymore... We should be researching, developing, selling, marketing, managing, innovating and exporting our great inventions and ideas to the world, etc ... The masses ? We'll they must evolve too or die (be crushed ?).
I've seen those empty buildings, I lived in CT in one of the towns where Steven Spielberg filmed parts of "War of the Worlds" with Tom Cruise. If you watch the movie, you'll see towards the end of the movie an old building being destroyed by one of the invaders, an abandoned quarry process building, the building exists in Naugatuck, CT and like that building there are thousands accross just CT... where do you think the people or their descendants of the people that work there are working today ? Even ITT, my employer in CT, had an assembly facility that they closed, the people that worked there ? retired most of them but some of their kids (my co-workers) were working with me as drafters, engineers, executive assistants, etc... not as a mfg. worker.... and they were better off than their parents !!!
Anyway, we must look for ways to evolve, if we do not evolve then we truly will be crushed by the China's and India's... we must be one step ahead of them and we must not look to them as our equals, we are far superior, socially, economically and technologically. They must look up to us for leadership, not viceversa.