On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 22:11 -0500, Ruben Safir wrote: > << Make the U.S. more competitive? Look around you! It is other > nations who need to emulate us to attempt to compete with US. And as a > relative measure against ourselves, by all the parameters used to > measure the health of the U.S. economy (unemployment pct, cost of > living, inflation, # people employed, home ownership, inflation, GDP, > etc.) the U.S. economy has never been better or stronger.>> > > > BTW this is rather insulting. Have you actually been sleepwalking > through the last 6 years of the high tech economy?
Lets see, 10Mbps+ connections to the home are common in europe. Korea can even bling bling a 25 megabit connection to the home... Jobs, well IBM is moving a big portion of their future software development to india(about 55k new jobs for india). Turning their US holdings in more 'customer facing' facilities. (America to be the worlds mall).... I'd say billions in IT dollars are flowing out of the US economy. Our imports exceed our exports.... As a country we are deeply in debt, both private and public. A large portion of our manufacturing has moved overseas as well... We're left with a service and sales driven economy which is as shaky as the stock market when all is said and done... It will take a long time to recover, and it doesn't help that financially our country (not just the government) has been headed in the wrong direction riding a near unregulated free market where % are more important than concrete $ and goods That's my pessimistic luddite view... -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
