United States Industry adrift amidst the choice of "control vs progress"
College administrators might be considering alcohol as relief to the unpredictable future.
Consider this - what goes through a high school senior's mind that grew up considering college to start a career when the future has turned so unpredictable and bleak!
The U.S. auto industry has just turned disposable because of conservative management that ran entire companies into the ground by thinking they were still in the 1950's when everybody was told to consume and they did - because they could. That's right ! The Ford Motor Company just announced it would buy out all of it's remaining employees' (75,000 left in contiguious U.S), contracts - to hire off shore or at below a living wage here on the mainland. How else do you rationalize the current situation the US auto industry is in? Is everyone afraid to be critical or is anyone really paying attention ?? Does anyone know what the net jobs gain is today for this administration ?
The computer industry is right behind this "control vs progress" concept (lock stock and barrel), as most computers hawked today at the major retailers are not "upgradeable", and at the same time the consumer is being trained by the consumer computer magazine editors to "dumb down" and believe the rubbish that "disposable computers are the future". Consider the source of income by the computer magazines - advertisers... and computer manufactures at that.
Inexpensive computers are the future that are specialized for certain specified functions and that do not come loaded up with all the garbage software that requires "mega-server" speeds to run more that 1-2 software programs simultaneously. But this specialized computer concept will never be embraced by the large computer manufacturers as it violates economy of scale. Hence the smaller specialized computer makers will will be part of a "new dawn"! And it's coming... unless you believe current industry leaders that just don't get it and you want more of the same.
But, the computer industry has already exercised much of what it can reasonably get away with (33% of former IT industry workers), off-shore and the consumer experiences it every time they call up tech-support and get a foreign national computer screen reader, or maybe the consumer can not access some vital state government service because the entire "NEW INTERNET BUSINESS MODEL", just awarded a new contract is hushed and 400% over the "low-bid" budget allocation and 1 year behind schedule - due to work done off-shore that spiraled out of control.
Consider the state of Colorado recently that could not get their family services payments to function consistently if at all for recepients - for over a year, when their data systems upgrade was buggy or just did not work at all.
It is way, way past the time to take the gloves off with criticism as the United States has lost itself in a sea of conservatism and the infatuation of the likes of the Karl Rove mindset and "control vs progress". And the media is also at fault as they are not asking the right questions.
Are we the U.S. consumers - Barbie and Ken ???
I challenge anyone that can dismantle this theory and present an argument that can rationalize the current dismal dilemma that U.S. industry is in.
The common response "Big Business Consultants" provide - is take your business off-shore. Really, and then what is left for the non-management types of individuals left here to earn a living to support themselves. Was The Chrysler Corp. really that stupid to get absorbed by Damlier which typlifies European management style, as well as a much different perspective of what the future is.
Is it time to put the "conservative" horse to pasture before we all starve or are squandered chasing our leaders' half-baked truths ! New leaders, new vision to Embrace The New Dawn !
College administrators might be considering alcohol as relief to the unpredictable future.
Consider this - what goes through a high school senior's mind that grew up considering college to start a career when the future has turned so unpredictable and bleak!
The U.S. auto industry has just turned disposable because of conservative management that ran entire companies into the ground by thinking they were still in the 1950's when everybody was told to consume and they did - because they could. That's right ! The Ford Motor Company just announced it would buy out all of it's remaining employees' (75,000 left in contiguious U.S), contracts - to hire off shore or at below a living wage here on the mainland. How else do you rationalize the current situation the US auto industry is in? Is everyone afraid to be critical or is anyone really paying attention ?? Does anyone know what the net jobs gain is today for this administration ?
The computer industry is right behind this "control vs progress" concept (lock stock and barrel), as most computers hawked today at the major retailers are not "upgradeable", and at the same time the consumer is being trained by the consumer computer magazine editors to "dumb down" and believe the rubbish that "disposable computers are the future". Consider the source of income by the computer magazines - advertisers... and computer manufactures at that.
Inexpensive computers are the future that are specialized for certain specified functions and that do not come loaded up with all the garbage software that requires "mega-server" speeds to run more that 1-2 software programs simultaneously. But this specialized computer concept will never be embraced by the large computer manufacturers as it violates economy of scale. Hence the smaller specialized computer makers will will be part of a "new dawn"! And it's coming... unless you believe current industry leaders that just don't get it and you want more of the same.
But, the computer industry has already exercised much of what it can reasonably get away with (33% of former IT industry workers), off-shore and the consumer experiences it every time they call up tech-support and get a foreign national computer screen reader, or maybe the consumer can not access some vital state government service because the entire "NEW INTERNET BUSINESS MODEL", just awarded a new contract is hushed and 400% over the "low-bid" budget allocation and 1 year behind schedule - due to work done off-shore that spiraled out of control.
Consider the state of Colorado recently that could not get their family services payments to function consistently if at all for recepients - for over a year, when their data systems upgrade was buggy or just did not work at all.
It is way, way past the time to take the gloves off with criticism as the United States has lost itself in a sea of conservatism and the infatuation of the likes of the Karl Rove mindset and "control vs progress". And the media is also at fault as they are not asking the right questions.
Are we the U.S. consumers - Barbie and Ken ???
I challenge anyone that can dismantle this theory and present an argument that can rationalize the current dismal dilemma that U.S. industry is in.
The common response "Big Business Consultants" provide - is take your business off-shore. Really, and then what is left for the non-management types of individuals left here to earn a living to support themselves. Was The Chrysler Corp. really that stupid to get absorbed by Damlier which typlifies European management style, as well as a much different perspective of what the future is.
Is it time to put the "conservative" horse to pasture before we all starve or are squandered chasing our leaders' half-baked truths ! New leaders, new vision to Embrace The New Dawn !
