Can the US thrive without manufacturing?

[oladub]

Gistock, 100,000,000 consultants will create a need for 25,000,000 coordinators.

[ccbatson]

We can, but would be better off not having to. What is needed is to restore incentive by diminishing taxation and regulation by government in their not so gradual socialization of AMerica agenda.

[ejames01]

I swear this guy has written this very same message 2,500 times. We KNOW that you feel that way. It is not necessary to write it on EVERY thread.

We can, but would be better off not having to. What is needed is to restore incentive by diminishing taxation and regulation by government in their not so gradual socialization of AMerica agenda.

[jiminnm]

When I was working and had to deal with an assortment of consultants brought in by executive management, we had a number of sayings about them. The one that immediately comes to mind is that a consultant is a person who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is, and then charges you $500/hour for it.

[MoparDan]

When I was working and had to deal with an assortment of consultants brought in by executive management, we had a number of sayings about them. The one that immediately comes to mind is that a consultant is a person who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is, and then charges you $500/hour for it.

I think this sums up consulting perfectly!
http://www.demotivators.com/consulting.html

[Detroitej72]

I wonder who on here is the lone yes vote?

[firstandten]

"Are you aware that the reason manufacturing jobs are declining as a share of all jobs has far more to do with increased productivity of American industry -- that is, increased strength of American industry -- than it has to do with increased foreign trade [[see bottom chart above)? Manufacturing jobs are being lost to technology and improved efficiencies. Do you think that this trend is undesirable? "




Could the increased efficiencies also be due to American companies off-shoring and a shifting of manufacturing plants to low cost countries ?

[Gistok]

I swear this guy has written this very same message 2,500 times. We KNOW that you feel that way. It is not necessary to write it on EVERY thread.

Who is stuck in the deeper rut? Him or Trainman??

LOL... thanks for all the "consultant" humor folks!!

[mauser]

This poll doesnt allow you to vote yes or no without the posters assumptions being added to each answer.

In court this would be called "leading the witness".

So - MINUS the leading question/ answer selections - a simple and unqualified "no" to the thread title question.

[Olddetroiter]

There's a word [[2 words actually) for countries without manufactring. They're called 'Third World'.

[MoparDan]

There's a word [[2 words actually) for countries without manufactring. They're called 'Third World'.

Another word is "Colony".

[Johnlodge]

This poll doesnt allow you to vote yes or no without the posters assumptions being added to each answer.

In court this would be called "leading the witness".

So - MINUS the leading question/ answer selections - a simple and unqualified "no" to the thread title question.

You're right, a simple no would have sufficed.

[eriedearie]

Gistock, 100,000,000 consultants will create a need for 25,000,000 coordinators.

Which in turn will create the need for 50,000,000 meetings between the consultants and coordinators!

[MoparDan]

Which in turn will create the need for 50,000,000 meetings between the consultants and coordinators!

Which will wind up wasting manhours ad infinitum.

[Detroitej72]

Who will we buy our military supplys from, the people [[China) who are our biggest threats?

[Flanders]

Who will we buy our military supplys from, the people [[China) who are our biggest threats?

I think that we are trying to overwhelm Communist China with commercial corporate capitalism and flood them with US manufacturing jobs, but with 1.3 billion to serve, it ain't going so well...

[rb336]

Who will we buy our military supplys from, the people [[China) who are our biggest threats?

There has been some talk that the latest naval ships may have to be built with -- chinese steel

[gazhekwe]

Chinese steel might be made with iron ore from the Mesabi iron range in Minnesota. China bought and reopened a major mine there a year or so ago.

I guess our 'servce' role includes digging, processing and shipping our resources to a country that has the vision to do what we don't support here.

[ccbatson]

Ejames...similar, very important, message, yet liberals still don't get it. So, repeating it in applied circumstances as illustration might open some eyes.

[rb336]

Chinese steel might be made with iron ore from the Mesabi iron range in Minnesota. China bought and reopened a major mine there a year or so ago.

ahh -- just call us Zaire/Congo west. supplier of raw materials, while value-added work goes to the new economic first world - China