earthworm
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- Dec 21, 2005
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- Goldsboro,PA
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Multiple factors: we have become a very unproductive country as far as actual products go (we've stop producing goods, and started turning to service industries), we seem to keep growing the government employee sector, while the private sector is standing still, and we have a disproportionately large portion of citizens on government payrolls in one form or another. Government doesn't produce- it's a net cost, and the private sector is growing at a much slower pace than the sector who needs support from the public sector.
Our productivity, of the few products that we do build is among the worlds best. Not that further improvements cannot be made, they can always be made... I worked the assembly line for years(defense industry)...they are not very efficient..
We need better, smarter engineers.
Management must learn to listen to the workers.
But there is no way we can compete against the Chinese; the work very hard, I believe, and for pennies per hour..
The answer/solution is obvious, or is it???
Government does produce, indirectly.
Where would our agriculture be without the Department of Agriculture?
This is public knowledge.
I'm thinking of a Department of Industry or Manufacturing, based along similar lines.
Please elaborate on the last sentence, as written, no sense results.