Reply #33: well to the main point [View All]

[uptohere]

how can a hundred year plan be anything more than a bunch of platitudes ? It is impossible to have an actual plan that extends that far. To project twenty years is equally impossible.

Your red flag regarding the notion that technology was not the cause of jobs moving. This is not quite right. In the case of technology jobs it is precisely what allowed it. This had been tried before years ago but the inability to monitor work or even communicate was a disaster. Microsoft overcame that with the limited improvement in communication and its just gotten easier since then. Regarding non-technology it and improved shipping ability combined to allow use of the lowered labor costs. I always hesitate to use the term slave labor as that seldom occurs and no moreso than in this country (actual free or nearly free labor). There is much lower labor costs over there that people call slave labor but I have to question why the people flock to the cities there for these jobs if they are so horrible. On the technology side the $12 an hour that a programmer makes is a very comfortable living there. Here it would be an insult.

I'll be glad to hear anything serious Clark has to say but how long will it take for that to happen ? He's had months of uninterrupted time to put this together (no campaigning or fund raising) and this is all he could do.

Time will tell but it doesn't look good.