2001-02-21 I read you comments on http://members.tripod.com/ukmetrication/id52.htm. You are a disgrace to the USA, and it shames me to think I share citizenship with someone so ignorant. It really shows a lack of intelligence and an abundance of arrogance to have to threaten nuclear destruction in order to save an incoherent collection of measuring units. What you wish to happen to others can easily happen to you. The USA is presently entering a severe recession. Manufacturing jobs are being lost by the hundreds of thousands. These are the jobs that pay well. And bankruptcies are increasing as well. Daily the newspapers are full of articles of plant closings, layoffs and bankruptcies. Since we are not metric enough, we do not have marketable products to export to the world that only buys metric. If many of these companies would make products that the world wants and we did have a solid export economy, we would not be in an economic downturn. Exports would take over where domestic sales are lacking. Yes, because everyone else is metric is good enough for me. Because they are our potential customers. You might like losing a good paying job and then having to settle for some low paying job with no benefits, but, I don't. You might want to work 70 h a week for meager wages and have to make up for the lost income with credit card debt, but I don't. I want to prosper. And if metric is the way, the only way, I'm all for it. I'm glad that 40 % of American industry is metric now. This increases the demand and brings the prices down for metric raw materials. It makes those who buy English parts pay premiums, which effects their bottom line. And, in the long term, that cost is passed on down to you. Either by paying more for basic goods and services, or seeing those companies that continue to think local instead of global close down. You won't change, but at least when it affects your wallet, you can't cry foul. You were warned! John Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtümlich glaubt frei zu sein. There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they are free! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
