[Coco] off-topic, space program

[Dean Leiber]

>We need to stay ahead of the Chinese in technology.
>They already took all our factory type jobs.
>If I go into Wallmart everything I see being sold there says, "Made in
>China" on it.
>
 True. Just try and find any consumer electronics that are actually still 
made in the US. I don't believe any TVs, VCRs, etc are made here anymore 
and I doubt seriously that they are even designed in the US. Except for 
high end custom bicycles, the rest all comes from China and other spots 
in asia. The same is true for other products. Frankly, I always try to 
buy stuff made in the US (gotta keep my fellow americans employed)  but 
in so many categories its virtually impossible to find any US made 
products. I don't see how this can be sustainable since for a country to 
exist it has to produce things. How we're going to stay ahead of the 
chinese in the longer run (15 yrs+) I haven't the foggiest. We won't have 
any factories left and our engineers will have lost their edge (hard to 
stay current when you're busy flipping burgers and digging ditches.) 


Dean