The real reason I started blogging was because the newspapers and magazines I read rarely print my opinion. The latest best example is the following letter that I tried posting on Newsweek’s web site. I tried for four days.
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I had just finished reading Andy Grove’s “How to Make an American Job” in Businessweek’s July 5 edition when latest edition of Newsweek arrived. He is the former CEO and chairman of Intel. Rana Foroohar writes her article “How to Build Again” in Newsweek. My background in is management of a variety of manufacturing concerns. What is her background?
Mr. Grove points out that Foxconn, the giant electronics subcontractor in China, employs over 800,000 people. Most of those people are earning one-fifth the pay that Americans require. Back in the 1950s 1960s and 1970s those 800,000 jobs would be in the United States. Innovation is wonderful but who will manufacture and assemble the next 3-D television or the next iPhone? Unless there is more job creation in the United States for the millions of Americans that are continuing to be laid off our children and grandchildren are in for some very unhappy lives.
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