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pahunkboy -> RE: Not Fooled by GOP Spin: Americans Still Blame Bush for Economy (4/11/2010 1:37:01 PM)
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The world is falling apart, and the level of suffering of the people of the planet is growing rapidly. The shrinking of the machine tool sector is a harbinger of further collapse, reflecting yet another downshift in manufacturing overall. It is similar in effect to the cutbacks in world shipping, especially the decline in raw materials and semi-finished products. The whole world economy is winding down, and the result will be measured not only in declining levels of goods and services, but in the loss of jobs, the loss of human potential, and in death. A disaster of world-historic proportions is playing out before our eyes. If we are to survive, we must change the way we approach our work. White-collar jobs, which became all the rage during the rise of the post-industrial society, are for the most part not productive, in the economic sense. We have far too high a percentage of our population employed as lawyers, financiers, clerks, and paper-pushers, and far too low a percentage employed in building infrastructure, manufacturing, and the like. What we need is more blue-collar workers, who know how to build things, who know how to make the machinery of civilization work. We need more scientists and engineers, to discover new physical principles and turn those discoveries into technologies to benefit all of mankind. We need to retu/snip
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