Face it, America is not a manufacturing powerhouse anymore. What is really built here anymore? Nope, nothing electronic. Give a couple of years, and the Japanese are going to own the automotive market. Toyota has surpassed Ford and is fast overtaking GM. If the Japanese could economically build houses here, I think they would be. The U.S. is becoming a service based economy, and we had better watch that carefully, as a lot of tech support is being shipped off to India. The farm economy is becoming corporate based, and more food is imported every year. With the "American Dream" of everyone being a white collar wage earner, SOMEBODY has to do the work...and increasingly, its not being done here anymore -- or if it is, its by illegals. Frankly, I'm not sure what Americans excel at anymore...it seems like everything we invent is perfected and marketed by overseas folks.
I don't have the solution. Its definitely become a global economy, and we can't ignore it. From my standpoint, I'm going to retire in three years, party hearty, and let you young guys figure out how to fix this country!
