From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 21:56:14 MDT
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From: <Dehede011@aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: MEDIA: Globalism, end of Socialism causes of jobless recovery
> In a message dated 9/1/2002 7:20:49 PM Central Standard Time,
> Spudboy100@aol.com writes: Well, (putting my red armband on) if this is true,
> then there is a crying need for us to inform stockholders of this deficit in
> American corporate management. If stockholders are educated of this
> deficiency, they may be more reluctant to invest in companies that are ruled
> by glorified human resources propagandists.
>
> Spudboy,
> That is very good. LOL The truth is they know. I think it was in 1978
> or 1979 that Scientific American ran an article saying the U. S. should get
> out of manufacturing and become a service provider.
> At the time I wondered about the article. It seemed short sighted but
> even more it seemed to be a policy paper so I couldn't figure out what it was
> doing in SA.
SA is (or was before the Germans bought it) often a cheerleader for the American Empire. Trantor, USA is supposed to provide the
administrative services for its colonies. The colonies in turn are supposed to provide cheap (on a PPP basis) raw materials and
finished goods in exchange for bits of colored paper. This was the essence of Bretton Woods, the terms of surrender of WWII. When
one of them gets uppity about this, we're supposed to hoist the colors and drop in for a little nation-building regime-change.
> First the techniques themselves. I think it was Taguchi that came up
> with what appears to be a better method of designing industrial experiments.
> I'll defer to those of you that are better on statistics but that is the way
> it looks to me. There are two American techniques that came out in the mid
> to late forties to the best of my knowledge. One, called SIS showed up as
> JIT.
JIT works really well right up until it doesn't. The lean inventory leave little room for maneuvering when supply lines are cut.
> The other is MTM and I know hardly anyone that uses it.
> All the others that I have seen are not only American techniques but
> they are from before my time (born 1934)
What a year to born into!
> My impression from watching the conduct of my larger clients is that
> they are up to here with the USA, the AFL/CIO, OSHA, EEO, EPA, our school
> system and all the rest of us. They are making soothing noises so as not to
> alarm us while they move overseas.
This fits my observations to a tee. Smaller businesses, which are not able to move overseas, are also "up to here" with it. A
contractor here may have to move his entire business to a different county simply because some despotic county commisioners felt the
urge to make themselves "useful". So maybe John Galt was right after all.
Forrest
-- Forrest Bishop Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering www.iase.cc
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