[TheForge] Re: OT: several questions and thoughts

[dann]

Anyone else remember the GoM  conference in Hastings Mn  where the adult 
daughter of a guild  blacksmith was shopping for items  &  ideas to have 
reproduced  in China.

Saw on the news a week ago.    A new Chinese car company intends to market 
spartan $10 K cars .  Their news media promo car in Chicago ,  looked like 
a real car too.

  5 years ago the president of that Chinese  company was  just launching  a 
startup company:   making small repair parts.   Union or no Union, Robotics 
or not, competing with the Chinese wage scale is  eating up European and 
North American  manufacturing   jobs.  Toward that trend, we will have only 
the medical profession , and  government jobs that aren't  "out sourced".

I don't have a daughter working as a flight attendant... so  if we follow 
the mentality.. if it is not my job, and  I can save money on my next 
flight ..  why not hire Chinese flight attendants for a dollar an 
hour.  <grins>.

Dann

At 11:07 AM 2/3/06, you wrote:


>GHS wrote:
>>Mike Spencer wrote:
>>Which is where robotics come in.
>>But the unions do not like robotics.