Meh. Wait until the US becomes a third world country and the jobs and companies will come back. *blinks* Huh? You thought I was kidding? OK only just partially. Manufacturing crap in the US is expensive. Cost of living and frankly consumerism needs to make its way to China/India/Middle Eats at which point there is no reason for US companies to flee the US. It will take a generation to get there, but it will. Meantime people in the US need to come to the realization that China is going to ellipse us within 20 year. The US will always be a major power in the world, unless we REALLY FUBAR something up. But simply put China has too many resources (Both material and man.) to be anything but a world leader. The only reason they haven't yet is one they are trying to put a square peg into a round hole with simply brute force. Look at the Three Gorges Dam project? Look at polution in Beijing. Too damn fast. And the result is going to be a mess. Also they have no freaking clue what to do with inland cities and resources that are being ignored for massive development for the coastal cities\region. I fully expect another uprising within 10 years as people in the poorer parts of China realize that other parts are getting massive preferential treatment. Once that settles....they are going to be a massive force to deal with. Which is why for 8 years I've looked at Bush as some tard who is so preoccupied with some shiny quarter on the ground that he's missing the semi barreling down on him. Lets see if Obama can hear the horn honking at him. The problem with him is that he has almost a decade of a disaster to clean up, thank you Shrug, before we can really "deal" with China. (Which in a way we are with trying to get schools to a level that doesn't suck butt, modernize our infrastructure, and actually have foreign relations.)
We'll see what happens. *shrugs* Meanwhile loosing a single company to another country is the least of our worries. Its like getting preoccupied with a pin prick while your hand has been cut off and its hemmoraging badly. Now if there are enough pin pricks, yah. Deal with it. But for now. Auto industry anyone?
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Meh. Wait until the US becomes a third world country and the jobs and companies will come back. *blinks* Huh? You thought I was kidding? OK only just partially. Manufacturing crap in the US is expensive. Cost of living and frankly consumerism needs to make its way to China/India/Middle Eats at which point there is no reason for US companies to flee the US. It will take a generation to get there, but it will. Meantime people in the US need to come to the realization that China is going to ellipse us within 20 year. The US will always be a major power in the world, unless we REALLY FUBAR something up.
But simply put China has too many resources (Both material and man.) to be anything but a world leader. The only reason they haven't yet is one they are trying to put a square peg into a round hole with simply brute force. Look at the Three Gorges Dam project? Look at polution in Beijing. Too damn fast. And the result is going to be a mess. Also they have no freaking clue what to do with inland cities and resources that are being ignored for massive development for the coastal cities\region. I fully expect another uprising within 10 years as people in the poorer parts of China realize that other parts are getting massive preferential treatment. Once that settles....they are going to be a massive force to deal with.
Which is why for 8 years I've looked at Bush as some tard who is so preoccupied with some shiny quarter on the ground that he's missing the semi barreling down on him. Lets see if Obama can hear the horn honking at him. The problem with him is that he has almost a decade of a disaster to clean up, thank you Shrug, before we can really "deal" with China. (Which in a way we are with trying to get schools to a level that doesn't suck butt, modernize our infrastructure, and actually have foreign relations.)
We'll see what happens. *shrugs* Meanwhile loosing a single company to another country is the least of our worries. Its like getting preoccupied with a pin prick while your hand has been cut off and its hemmoraging badly. Now if there are enough pin pricks, yah. Deal with it.
But for now. Auto industry anyone?