tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969203472092232036.post69547825559914684..comments2012-10-17T09:02:12.868-04:00Comments on How's Business?: Manufacturing and the jobs crisisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969203472092232036.post-74070308679901606592012-01-26T17:35:26.881-05:002012-01-26T17:35:26.881-05:00The first article on Apple is correct.
This is ...The first article on Apple is correct. <br /><br />This is something I saw almost 10 years ago when I lived in China for a year.<br /><br />The Chinese are smart and hard working. Americans for the most part are neither.<br /><br />Just look at our schools. Pathetic. Catering to the lowest common denominator at the expense of our best.<br /><br />That's a winning formula!<br /><br />Also, the fanciful idea that America can somehow bootstrap itself into prosperity through small businesses and entrepreneurs is just so 1970's.<br /><br />Yes, back when Apple and Microsoft got started that was the way to do it.<br /><br />Today, any sensible entrepreneur would outsource production of whatever gizmo he created to someplace like China or India as soon as it was feasible.<br /><br />Those "garage" jobs are not going to grow into American manufacturing jobs as they did in the past.<br /><br />The past is the past. We had a good thing going and basically blew it.<br /><br />Andy Grove of Intel is another one to consult on this matter. He has said basically the same thing.<br /><br />http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b4186048358596.htm<br /><br />Let's face it, our politicians are basically clueless, but they will tell us what we want to hear and recycle the same worn-out cliches about how we can rebuild America by doing what we did 30 years ago.<br /><br />Nope. Not gonna happen.<br /><br />I guess we'll all have to become insurance salesmen...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com