Post by blueneck on Jun 13, 2007 17:21:38 GMT -6
The town I live in was once a great industrial powerhouse. Over the last decade nearly all the major industries have packed up and moved offshore, or closed due to inability to compete on price against unfair foreign imports. The ones that remain are shadows of their former selves.
During the time this was once a great industrial town it was also know as a city of innovation, many things that we take for granted were either invented, developed or manufactured here - electric motors, the gas pump, the pocket calculator, the television camera, the safety valve and many more. Since the manufacturing has gone there are no new innovations.
In my travels I am noticing similar sagas unfolding in many a former Midwestern and northeastern industrial town, loss of manufacturing, then loss of innovation. The bottom line line is that no other industry drives innovation like manufacturing so when manufacturing goes, so does the driving force of invention. Others I speak with are noticing this too.
Economies grow on innovation. Yet we are sacrificing the goose that lays the eggs of innovation. There are no "next big things" on the horizon. Nay, we are now going to rely on foreign countries to supply that. What superpower can sustain itself without healthy industry and the invention it creates? Or defend itself when the arsenals of democracy have been given to a potential enemy?
As the outsoucerers and globalistas, and supply siders all promise that R&D and technology would offset the losses of manufacturing, yet they failed to take into account that manufacturing is the mother of innovation, or more sinister knew this and simply didn't care in the quest for mega profits.
Whatever happened to good old fashioned Yankee Ingenuity?
During the time this was once a great industrial town it was also know as a city of innovation, many things that we take for granted were either invented, developed or manufactured here - electric motors, the gas pump, the pocket calculator, the television camera, the safety valve and many more. Since the manufacturing has gone there are no new innovations.
In my travels I am noticing similar sagas unfolding in many a former Midwestern and northeastern industrial town, loss of manufacturing, then loss of innovation. The bottom line line is that no other industry drives innovation like manufacturing so when manufacturing goes, so does the driving force of invention. Others I speak with are noticing this too.
Economies grow on innovation. Yet we are sacrificing the goose that lays the eggs of innovation. There are no "next big things" on the horizon. Nay, we are now going to rely on foreign countries to supply that. What superpower can sustain itself without healthy industry and the invention it creates? Or defend itself when the arsenals of democracy have been given to a potential enemy?
As the outsoucerers and globalistas, and supply siders all promise that R&D and technology would offset the losses of manufacturing, yet they failed to take into account that manufacturing is the mother of innovation, or more sinister knew this and simply didn't care in the quest for mega profits.
Whatever happened to good old fashioned Yankee Ingenuity?