Some good news for a change

[PLC1]

U.S. factories outwork China

Washington — U.S. factories are closing. American manufacturing jobs are reappearing overseas. China's industrial might is growing each year.

And it might seem as if the United States doesn't make world-class goods as well as some other nations.

"There's no reason Europe or China should have the fastest trains, or the new factories that manufacture clean energy products," President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address last week.

Yet America remains by far the No. 1 manufacturing country. It out-produces No. 2 China by more than 40 percent.

While China is gaining economic ground pretty quickly, the US still remains #1.

Maybe with a little effort, we can stay on top.

 

[dogtowner]

Commodity producers will always lag this way. Its WHY they are commodity producers. We will remain in the forefront IF we stay ahead of the curve o highER tech manufacture.

But it is nice to see that we ARE #1 despite the president's belief in our lack of exceptionalism.

 

[Gipper]

U.S. factories outwork China



While China is gaining economic ground pretty quickly, the US still remains #1.

Maybe with a little effort, we can stay on top.

To stay on top, we need to stop BO and friends.

This administration is doing all it can to discourage private investment and job growth. For example, they destroyed oil drilling in the gulf, which will be even more damaging if oil prices spike. And, the EPA with BO's executive order, will prevent economic growth. His rule of "equity, human dignity, fairness, and distributive impacts" is a joke and a Cass Sunstein wet dream.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Commodity producers will always lag this way. Its WHY they are commodity producers. We will remain in the forefront IF we stay ahead of the curve o highER tech manufacture.

But it is nice to see that we ARE #1 despite the president's belief in our lack of exceptionalism.

and the best way to stay ahead of the curve on tech...is....keep cutting funding for education!

That seems to be the plan with Republicans.

 

[dogtowner]

and the best way to stay ahead of the curve on tech...is....keep cutting funding for education!

That seems to be the plan with Republicans.

Or you could not tax innovation to death then maybe those companies with trillions in reserve would be more inclined to ramp up the R&D.

Since the DofEd was started in 1980, education in America has gone straight downhill. Thats a lot of money and nothing to show for it. Money is not the answer. Clearly.

 

[Apathy]

and the best way to stay ahead of the curve on tech...is....keep cutting funding for education!

That seems to be the plan with Republicans.

Considering education is no business of the federal government anything short of a 100% cut would be irresponsible.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Considering education is no business of the federal government anything short of a 100% cut would be irresponsible.

well if you do that, just wait for the red states in the south to come begging for workers out of state ...since its the other states helping make sure they have the money for education....And of course we will have the idiot states of Kansas and the like deciding not to teach kids science because they would rather teach church as science...

Maybe they can teach kids how to pray for a new energy source...while the rest of the nation tries to actually find one.

Even within my state we have to pool the money and spread it out..otherwise if you did not live in the subburbs or at least the city...you would go to schools with no funds in the outstate smaller towns. End up with north MN being filled with Hill People..

Also Apathy, they are trying to gut it at the state level as well of course.

 

[PLC1]

Education is of primary importance if we're to stay ahead of the game. It looks as if everyone agrees on that point (wonder of wonders!)

Does more money = better education? I think that equation is questionable at best. Does less money = better education? No, that's patently absurd.

One thing we need to do if we want to encourage innovation and thinking outside of the box is to stop relying on bubbling in the "correct" answer as the only way of evaluating what students have learned. The test driven curriculum is a detriment to real learning.

 

[dogtowner]

Does less money = better education? No, that's patently absurd.

Saw a special a few years ago that examined this a little. They looked at a private school aimed at "at risk" kids and very low funded and juxtaposed it against the public school which spent at 3X the private. Both were in NYC and the same neighborhood. The low budget one put out college ready and accepted kids while the other suffered the usual inner city issues. It's really about wanting to learn far more than anything else. In short, parenting. Bill Cosby has been preaching this to deaf ears for some time now.

 

[PLC1]

Saw a special a few years ago that examined this a little. They looked at a private school aimed at "at risk" kids and very low funded and juxtaposed it against the public school which spent at 3X the private. Both were in NYC and the same neighborhood. The low budget one put out college ready and accepted kids while the other suffered the usual inner city issues. It's really about wanting to learn far more than anything else. In short, parenting. Bill Cosby has been preaching this to deaf ears for some time now.

Yes, it is more about wanting to learn than anything else, and parenting is the key. Bill Cosby is right.

So, if the funding were cut by 2/3, would that make the students want to learn, or is there a different factor to consider?

 

[dogtowner]

Yes, it is more about wanting to learn than anything else, and parenting is the key. Bill Cosby is right.

So, if the funding were cut by 2/3, would that make the students want to learn, or is there a different factor to consider?

No, only innate desire or parenting will make the students want to learn. Money makes no difference at all.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

if cutting funding means better schools, lets give all schools zero..and all kids with be rocket scientist!