I made the mistake of opening one of Daniel's emails, and cannot resist responding -- what a load of B.S. he is spewing! My comments in red.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 9:54:23 AM (GMT-0700) America/Denver Subject: [USMA:38112] metric in the classroom I think America's schools and students need a rude wake-up call. Oh, are you talking about America's PUBLIK schools, run by America's GOVERNMENT??? Gosh, I thought you worshipped all things socialist!! They need to be told point blank that their metric ignorance Somewhat Real and anti-metric bias My personal experience teaching metric to many of our Publik Skool graduates is that anti-metric bias is almost nonexistent -- the problem is lack of education, not active dislike is a motivating factor in businesses choosing to have their products made in metric elsewhere in the world Total BS -- I challenge you to post ANY concrete evidence of ANY company moving production outside of the US due to metric ignorance. High paying manufacturing jobs are disappearing and have been disappearing for some time Again...B.S. -- it is the low-wage jobs that are outsourced, not the high-paying ones forcing Americans to live on less pay, excessive borrowing to maintain a middle class life style and working on the average 60 to 70 h per week at a low paying job More BS -- see http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm. Then to rub salt into the wounds, the products once made in inches in the US are now made in metric elsewhere and imported back to the US. The difference is they are made by metric loving people and not made by metric haters. Yet, the metric haters still buy them. Of course, the reality is that few people who pay attention to the units in which something is "made," so love or hate metric, this is immaterial. The reality of this situation may scare enough people to make them realize that metric is needed to keep the US from descending into a third world economy with poverty for everyone. It's America's economy that is kicking all others in the teeth, particularly Europe's. Tell me again how not being fully metricated is holding back the USA? Teachers that are anti-metric aid the problem and should be removed from teaching positions and have their certificates revoked. Too bad teacher's unions and government bureaucracy make that nearly impossible!! Dan As I tell my employees whenever I teach metric classes (and as Pat Naughtin has pointed out many times), the USA is largely metric already, aside from a facade of packaging of consumer products. Every year the country becomes more metric, and in time our old colloquial units will dissappear. It won't be as fast as most of us would like, but it IS happening. Jim Elwell ********************** Jim Elwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 801-466-8770 www.qsicorp.com
