| With the downsizing or right sizing as some call it of | | | | all sectors which support the manufacturing industry |
| the United States Automakers one has to wonder | | | | from mining of their raw materials to the abundance |
| how we will be able to replace all those high-paying | | | | of handicap ramps at the dealerships and everything |
| jobs in the manufacturing sector. Did you know that | | | | in between. Nobody buys American products in that |
| most of the of the General Motors and Ford UAW | | | | scenario and we are not fixing the root of the |
| manufacturing line workers make more than Boeing | | | | problem that is we attack our own companies here in |
| employees, which make jet airliners? | | | | the United States, with mêlée-mouthed |
| How on Earth are we suppose to replace 60,000 | | | | politicians telling us they are protecting us by making |
| displaces and laid-off workers at those salary levels? | | | | all these laws. Yet these lawmakers are really only |
| Some say about the only hope as this occurs is the | | | | making these laws to get the votes of the |
| eventuality of fuel prices coming down, emergence | | | | brain-dead masses who want to eat the bread |
| of strength in small business thru reduced regulations | | | | without producing a thing. |
| or re-training for high-tech jobs using some | | | | This is why so many free-market thinkers say let's |
| revolutionary learning tools to ramp up fast. | | | | get rid of this over regulation, incessant taxation and |
| Many believe that they do not see any of this on the | | | | all these lawyers and then and only then will |
| local economic horizon in 2006. Other complain that all | | | | manufacturing fly again. Every time you reduce costs, |
| this is happening as most citizens are 1.5 times annual | | | | improve efficiency or ease the process you can feel |
| income in short term debt, not looking so good really. | | | | a new breath of life in the economic vitality. |
| Sixty thousand laid off workers is huge indeed and | | | | Meanwhile some World Economic watchers are taking |
| this is why many feel it could send a shock wave | | | | a closer look at China and warning us to beware. |
| thru real estate, retail and the service sector in those | | | | Some say that China is liable to use the GM and |
| areas within 50 miles of every plant departing the | | | | other American Corporations as leverage to serve |
| production scene. | | | | their political real to re-unite Taiwan and that they are |
| Other more optimistic economists believe that this | | | | playing a chess board the size of a football field as |
| dilemma is fixable, but not short term and not in | | | | they march there pawns ever so slightly with each |
| human terms of standard of living, kids going to | | | | rise of the sun. The field is tilting can you hear the |
| college and digging out of debt for those who are | | | | creaking sounds? The United States has made a |
| without. Some say that small business franchising | | | | good run for 200-years but has forgotten history and |
| could take up slack, but the industry is so | | | | the Roman Decadence of an un-earned utopian vision |
| over-regulated that it is doubtful. Putting 30,000 small | | | | is getting the best of it. |
| businesses thru franchising could be done in those | | | | As for all the critics out there the United States is |
| areas in under a year, but we are seeing so many | | | | not down and out and one only needs to look at the |
| barriers, it is not worth it. Twothousand franchisors | | | | scoreboard to see that. Yet many of these folks do |
| putting in 15 units each in those regions is doable | | | | make legitimate points in these very serious |
| actually, too bad for all the over regulation. | | | | economic issues, which we must consider as we living |
| Indeed over regulation is what killed the | | | | in truly historic times. Think on it. |
| manufacturing sector to begin with as it permeated | | | | |