Is this turning into a (misguided) debate on economies, culminating in stuff
about the (eagerly awaited) collapse of the US dollar?
From: Daniel Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:38118] Only metric sells
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:09:40 -0800 (PST)
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If it is made in inches or feet, don't buy it as it is obsolete.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
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