[triadtechtalk] Re: Talk about food for thought! (OTF)
- From: Armando Barreiro <fidelis1sob@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:16:12 -0800 (PST)
I lived in Phila., Pa. from 1963 through 1969, that's where I learned English
as a second language, and then we moved to Miami, FL in 1970, so yes, I know of
the bitterly cold temps. that are common in winter in the Northern latitudes,
but now, being accustomed to the Fl. climate, you're right, it was cold last
week, but I would qualify it to have been bitterly cold, you know how
Floridians hate the cold, and starting on Monday "el mono va a estar que
chifla" - it'll turn cold enough to make a monkey whistle.
The money spent now is owed by the tax payers, present and future, but our
govt. bonds are still rated as AAA. Less social(ism) programs is the solution.
Even Clinton instituted, Welfare Reform, much to the chagrin of the extreme
liberals.(*)
My neighbor's son just finished his U.S.Army tour and returned home yesterday.
I saw this kid grow up into a young man and when he graduated from H.S. he
joined the Army. ITMT, we have AH like Kerry putting down our fellow Americans
who join the service. (**)
Take care,
Armando
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--- On Fri, 12/24/10, ROBERT BURGER <RobertBurger36@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: ROBERT BURGER <RobertBurger36@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [triadtechtalk] Re: Talk about food for thought! (OTF)
To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, December 24, 2010, 8:37 PM
Hi Armando,
Thanks for this very uplifting email. The previous one was very
pessimistic. Unfortunately, I tend to take the pessimistic view which
doesn't help anything. But our nation really solves problems.
The main thing I worry about is the way they are printing money like it is
going out of style. It could produce ultra inflation (like Germany after
WWI) which would wipe out any saving that a person might have.
I always enjoy your comments, whether they be technical or otherwise.
Thanks again for all you comments.
I believe that you live in Florida. I just came back from visiting my
brother in Zephyrhills. It was cold but not as cold as PA.
Regards
Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: armando barreiro
To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 1:52
PM
Subject: [triadtechtalk] Re: Talk about
food for thought! (OTF)
That's a very pessimistic view of the state of our
nation.
It's actually the intention of the Fabian Socialists to
implant hopelessness and dissatisfaction in order to achieve their goal
of destroying free enterprise in order to create a global socialist
government.
Throughout its very short history the U.S.A. has
always managed to overcome every challenge it has confronted, and it
has
even gone far beyond has become an undeniable catalyst in bringing an
end to wars in Europe, Asia, the Pacific, in the entire world and in
reconstruction of the very nations which were adversely destroyed by
the
actions of their very own government, as is evidenced in the Marshall
Plan and in the reconstrution of Japan itself.
In the territory
just south of Manchurria, we wouldn't now be having the problems that
exist if but for Truman, who deliberately stopped McArthur from
crossing
the 38th parallel.
Heck, So. Korea is prosperous, while the North has
the largest standing army of the entire world, while its people die of
hunger and subsist on what the West sends them in aide.
Even the
Stalinist communists abandoned their socialist forms of economic rules
due to the fact that their economies were in bankruptcy. The largest
number of millionaires now reside in Moscow and in Beijing, yet the US
Govt. sent millions to the ex-Soviets after its collapse, they feared
the exodus of nuclear arms.
Reagan defeated them without firing a
single shot, all he said was "Satr Wars", a fictional world which the
mighty bear knew that the US could very probably achieve. They folded,
poker!
A new chair-person will soon be taking charge in the House
of Representatives' committee on Forign Policy. Change is soon to come,
as soon as the new Congress takes oath in 2011.
While Greece,
Spain, Ireland, and the rest of the socialist states of the EU become
bankrupt and their public debt and bonds are rated as Ab and soon to be
junk, the US is still rated as AAA, despite the trillion + spent by the
last Congress, so take heart, don't allow the socialist culture of the
repoting media drag your spirits down.
Even as bad as it is
painted to be by the likes of Cokie et al, the majority of the world's
population would still give anything in order to be able to live in the
good old USA. The poorest of the destitute living in our nation are
rich
when compared to standard of living enjoyed by the majority of the
people in most of the other nations of the world.
"God bless
America, Land that I love. Stand beside her and guide her
through..."
And those lines, my friends, are not of my
design.
As far as I'm concerned, the future is challenging, but
not bleak, on the contrary, this is now a technology revolution, and at
the forefront of the technological revolution is the good U.S. of
A.
The greedy politicians were put there by the ignorant majority
who voted them in, and they can vote them out.
How many ot these,
retired, were called to serve by O and were found to owe taxes. What
about Rangel, for instance? Should he continue to serve? How about the
late KKK Wizard fron WV who died recently? Who voted them in?
Now
they're going to vote for Rahm Emanuel for mayor in Chicago.
God
bless America, my home, sweet home!
Armando
--- On Fri,
12/17/10, GASCON, VICTOR <VGASCON@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From:
GASCON, VICTOR <VGASCON@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [triadtechtalk]
Re: Talk about food for thought! (OTF)
To:
"'triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'"
<triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, December 17,
2010, 1:07 PM
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Juanita,
Oh,
it is very true. Sadly and depressingly true. The U.S. is heading for
crisis (plural) of unimaginable proportions. I blame it all on two
groups: Congress (self-serving greedy politicians, in general) and
the
rest of us (for being too busy working as many jobs as needed to
maintain a standard of living we cannot afford). At the core of most
of our problems are greed and ignorance (much of it voluntary — we
rather not know than face reality).
We
will wake up and come to terms with all these facts. I just wonder if
it will be in time to stop us from becoming the next Roman Empire
that
collapsed out of arrogance (as many other empires have).
Merry
Christmas everyone!
-=
Victor =-
From:
triadtechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:triadtechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Juanita Kimble
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 12:25
PM
To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:
[triadtechtalk] Talk about food for thought!
(OTF)
I
sure hope all this isn't true
Juanita
Talk about food for
thought!
There
is nothing political about this email..It simply points
out very probable changes that are in our
future.
CHANGES
ARE COMING ---- Whether these changes are good or bad
depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or
not, here they come!
1. The
Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without
the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble
that there is probably no way to sustain it long term.
Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the
minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive.
Most
of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.
2. The
Check. Britain is already laying the groundwork
to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial
system billions of dollars a year to process checks.
Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the
eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the
death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by
mail and never received them by mail, the post office
would absolutely go out of business..
3. The
Newspaper. The younger generation simply doesn't
read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a
daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the
milkman and the laundry man.. As for reading the paper
online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile
Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the
newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance.
They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell
phone
companies to develop a model for paid subscription
services.
4. The
Book. You say you will never give up the physical
book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal
pages. I said the same thing about downloading music
fromiTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly
changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums
for half the price without ever leaving home to get the
latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You
can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview
chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half
that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once
you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of
the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't
wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're
holding a gadget instead of a book.
5. The
Land Line Telephone. Unless you have a large
family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it
anymore Most people keep it simply because they've always
had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra
service. All the cell phone companies will let you call
customers using the same cell provider for no charge
against your minutes
6. Music. This
is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The
music
industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of
illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new
music
being given a chance to get to the people who would like
to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The
record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply
self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today
is
"catalog items," meaning traditional music that the
public
is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also
true on the live concert circuit. To explore this
fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the
book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper,
and the video documentary, "Before the Music
Dies."
7. Television. Revenues
to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because
of
the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed
from their computers. And they're playing games and doing
lots of other things that take up the time that used to
be
spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down
to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates
are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4
minutes
and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's
time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery.
Let the people choose what they want to watch online and
through Netflix.
8. The
"Things" That You Own. Many of the very
possessions that we used to own are still in our lives,
but we may not actually own them in the future. They may
simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a
hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies,
and
documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can
always re-install it if need be. But all of that is
changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing
up their latest "cloud services." That means that when
you
turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the
operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS
will
be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon,
it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save
something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay
a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In
this virtual world, you can access your music or your
books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld
device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own
any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear
at
any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in
our
lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to
run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a
book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out
the
insert.
9. Privacy. If
there ever was a concept that we can look back on
nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's
been
gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the
street, in most of the buildings, and even built into
your
computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7,
"They" know who you are and where you are, right down to
the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you
buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles,
and your ads will change to reflect those habits. And
"They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again
and again.
All we
will have that can't be changed are Memories.
Nineteen
Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will
Blow Your Mind
The
United States is rapidly becoming the very first
"post-industrial" nation on the globe. All great economic
empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the
great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but
the pace at which America is accomplishing this is
absolutely amazing. It was America that was at the
forefront of the industrial revolution. It was America
that showed the world how to mass produce everything from
automobiles to televisions to airplanes. It was the great
American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and
Japan
in World War II.
But now we are
witnessing the deindustrialization of America . Tens
of thousands of factories have left the United States in
the past decade alone Millions upon millions of
manufacturing jobs have been lost in the same time
period. The United States has become a nation that
consumes everything in sight and yet produces
increasingly
little. Do you know what our biggest export is
today? Waste paper. Yes, trash is the number one
thing that we ship out to the rest of the world as we
voraciously blow our money on whatever the rest of the
world wants to sell to us. The United States has
become bloated and spoiled and our economy is now just a
shadow of what it once was. Once upon a time America
could literally out produce the rest of the world
combined. Today that is no longer true, but Americans
sure do consume more than anyone else in the
world. If the deindustrialization of America
continues at this current pace, what possible kind of a
future are we going to be leaving to our
children?
Any great nation throughout history has
been great at making things. So if the United States
continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode at a
staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to
consider itself to be a great nation? We have created
the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world in an
effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but
the
current state of affairs is not anywhere close to
sustainable. Every single month America goes into
more debt and every single month America gets
poorer.
So what happens when the
debt bubble pops?
The
deindustrialization of the United States should be a top
concern for every man, woman and child in the
country. But sadly, most Americans do not
have any idea what is going on around them.
For
people like that, take this article and print it out and
hand it to them. Perhaps what they will read below
will shock them badly enough to awaken them from their
slumber.
The following are
19 facts about the deindustrialization of America that
will blow your mind....
#1 The United States has
lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001..About 75
percent of those factories employed over 500 people when
they were still in operation.
#2 Dell Inc., one of
America 's largest manufacturers of computers, has
announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in
China with an investment of over $100 billion over the
next decade.
#3 Dell has announced that it will be
closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in
Winston-Salem , North Carolina in November.
Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.
#4 In 2008,
1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide. So how
many of them were manufactured inside the United States
? Zero.
#5 According to a new study conducted
by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade
deficit with China continues to increase at its current
rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs
this year alone.
#6 As of the end of July, the U.S.
trade deficit with China had risen 18 percent compared to
the same time period a year ago.
#7 The United
States has lost a total of about 5.5 million
manufacturing
jobs since October 2000.
#8 According to Tax Notes,
between 1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign
affiliates
of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30
percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time
period, U.S. employment at American multinational
corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.
#9
In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S.
economic output. In 2008, it represented 11.5
percent.
#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced
the closure of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in
St. Paul , Minnesota . Approximately 750 good paying
middle class jobs are going to be lost because making
Ford
Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new
"global" manufacturing strategy.
#11 As of the end
of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in
manufacturing. The last time less than 12 million
Americans were employed in manufacturing was in
1941.
#12 In the United States today, consumption
accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over
half is spent on services.
#13 The United States
has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs
since the year 2000.
#14 In 2001, the United States
ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband
Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.
#15
Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is
actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
#16
Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of
different products. Asia now produces 84 percent of
them worldwide.
#17 The United States spends
approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that
the
Chinese spend on goods from the United States .
#18
One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese
economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy
by the year 2040.
#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says
that 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty and
according to them that is the highest number of poor
Americans in the 51 years that records have been
kept.
So how many tens of thousands more factories
do we need to lose before we do something about
it?
How many millions more Americans are going to
become unemployed before we all admit that we have a
very,
very serious problem on our hands?
How many more
trillions of dollars are going to leave the country
before
we realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is
killing our economy?
How many once great
manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war
zones
like Detroit before we understand that we are committing
national economic suicide?
The
deindustrialization of America is a national
crisis. It needs to be treated like one.
If
you disagree with this article, I have a direct challenge
for you. If anyone can explain how a deindustrialized
America has any kind of viable economic future, please do
so below in the comments section.
America is in
deep, deep trouble folks. It is time to WAKE
UP.
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