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Very good and thought provoking post OP! As a former Engineering Tech in consumer products I sure hear you. First it started with manufacturing being shipped out becaues it was SOOO much cheaper, all the while they/we were building up their skills overseas until eventually they could do all of the engineering and design. At least I didn't have to go over and train my replacements like some of my colleagues had to do before they shut us down. Hey they have got to save very penny they can, how else can they pay all those executives eliminating all the decent paying manufacturing jobs those 7 and 8 figure yearly compensation packages. Seems they're not too concerned that when no good jobs are left, who's going to buy their stuff? I know it sure concerns me. I saw a documentary on the History channel a while ago that said after WWII over 70% of the worlds goods were designed, developed, and manufactured in the USA. I don't think I want to know what that percentage is today.
Also the point Qwkss bring up is a big concern of mine. With many schools no longer giving acheivement awards for excelling in reading, or spelling, or math, etc., because it hurts the self esteem of the students who don't get them. Or when children participate in sporting events where they don't keep score because it makes the losers feel bad. Or as he stated where everyone gets a trophy because it makes those that don't get one feel bad. All that type of thinking just scares the heck out of me. What is going to happen when all these ill-prepared and overly coddled children grow up and go out into the REAL dog-eat-dog world?!?!?! There are going to be some real unhappy people out there that are going to expect someone to make everything all right for them, and who do you suppose they'll expect that to be? IMO I fear it will only worsen the trend of the direction that this once great country is taking.
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