Germany's economy is booming. Germany's export of metric goods is booming. The euro is STRONG.
http://jurnalo.com/jurnalo/storyPage.do?story_id=22280 No company will say they are going elsewhere because of metric, but for whatever reason, the products once made in inches in the US are now made in metric elsewhere. The cheap stuff in China and India, the high valued goods from Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Metric makes money for a nation, non-metric doesn't. All America has to show for its non-metricness is debt, debt and more debt. America's economy isn't kicking, it is stumbling all over the place. What America calls growth is just more deficit spending. More buying on credit. Americans spend 3 % more then they earn. If the US was more metric and more open and positive about being metric there would be more metric goods produced openly (not in secret) in the US and the world would be happy to buy them. Then the US would have a balanced trade account. Instead the US continues to buy metric produced goods from the world and world continues to buy metric produced goods from each other, but not the US. Yes, there are some American industries that are metric, but not enough to make a financial difference. Some that are metric are only so because they may assemble German or Chinese metric parts into their products. Others do so because they have to if they want to sell elsewhere. http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=51499 Now that China plans to set up a company to find other sources to invest their surpluses in, the purchase of US bonds will decrease and the subsidizing of US debt will come to an end. This means the US will have no choice but to make an effort to increase exports and the only way to do that is to project a positive metric attitude to the world. No metric no exports. It is that simple. If it is made in inches or feet, don't buy it as it is obsolete. Dan ----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Elwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:31:40 PM Subject: [USMA:38115] Re: metric in the classroom I made the mistake of opening one of Daniel's emails, and cannot resist responding -- what a load of B.S. he is spewing! My comments in red. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 9:54:23 AM (GMT-0700) America/Denver Subject: [USMA:38112] metric in the classroom I think America's schools and students need a rude wake-up call. Oh, are you talking about America's PUBLIK schools, run by America's GOVERNMENT??? Gosh, I thought you worshipped all things socialist!! They need to be told point blank that their metric ignorance Somewhat Real and anti-metric bias My personal experience teaching metric to many of our Publik Skool graduates is that anti-metric bias is almost nonexistent -- the problem is lack of education, not active dislike is a motivating factor in businesses choosing to have their products made in metric elsewhere in the world Total BS -- I challenge you to post ANY concrete evidence of ANY company moving production outside of the US due to metric ignorance. High paying manufacturing jobs are disappearing and have been disappearing for some time Again...B.S. -- it is the low-wage jobs that are outsourced, not the high-paying ones forcing Americans to live on less pay, excessive borrowing to maintain a middle class life style and working on the average 60 to 70 h per week at a low paying job More BS -- see http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm. Then to rub salt into the wounds, the products once made in inches in the US are now made in metric elsewhere and imported back to the US. The difference is they are made by metric loving people and not made by metric haters. Yet, the metric haters still buy them. Of course, the reality is that few people who pay attention to the units in which something is "made," so love or hate metric, this is immaterial. The reality of this situation may scare enough people to make them realize that metric is needed to keep the US from descending into a third world economy with poverty for everyone. It's America's economy that is kicking all others in the teeth, particularly Europe's. Tell me again how not being fully metricated is holding back the USA? Teachers that are anti-metric aid the problem and should be removed from teaching positions and have their certificates revoked. Too bad teacher's unions and government bureaucracy make that nearly impossible!! Dan As I tell my employees whenever I teach metric classes (and as Pat Naughtin has pointed out many times), the USA is largely metric already, aside from a facade of packaging of consumer products. Every year the country becomes more metric, and in time our old colloquial units will dissappear. It won't be as fast as most of us would like, but it IS happening. Jim Elwell ********************** Jim Elwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 801-466-8770 www.qsicorp.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/
