America's season of discontent

re: America's season of discontent

Ian Donnis — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:11:18 GMT

Agreed. A better educated workforce is a big need hereabouts.

re: America's season of discontent

joe bernstein — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:30:31 GMT

I have no argument there ian,but those industries require good literacy and more than a HS diploma in most cases.People who have only a HS diploma,GED,or nothing also need decent employment to break the poverty cycle,because public funds are drying up for them.

re: America's season of discontent

Ian Donnis — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:39:20 GMT

The renewable energy, digital media and IT sectors, while hardly a cureall, offer promise for growth in RI.

re: America's season of discontent

joe bernstein — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:44:16 GMT

Sometimes it seems like the production end of our economy has gotten tired.And no wonder.It's hard to start up a manufacturing business today.

Essentially,our main competitors are India and China.Russia has lousy quality control on everything except vodka(which may explain the state of quality control)-China,in particular,has no problem starting up new industrial sites without environmental impact studies,they burn huge quantites of coal(they still run steam engines on many trains!!),the concept of OSHA is a bad joke over there,they pay little,and they extract natural resources without any concern for collateral damage.All the while we get ourselves into contortions over drilling for oil.

And then we're surprised that their economy is aggressive,particularly in manufacturing/export?

The Chinese had the equivalent of multinationals(the"Overseas Chinese")before we were independent.

Any ideas on this?

Oh-and India-competition in the "soft end" of cyberbusiness.