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Can U.S. Manufacturing Really Deliver More Jobs?

Posted October 17, 2010 8:02 AM

Some say automation can boost domestic manufacturing to make the U.S. more competitive, but will that add the kind of jobs that are the real goal of an expanding manufacturing industry? What can policy makers and associations offer to make the manufacturing sector more profitable? And what about education? Are schools preparing technically savvy students?

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10/18/2010 2:05 PM

We can build bigger faster more agile robots, then we can sell this product to other countries, then we can start the road to terra forming mars by robotic droids so that when we get the stones to actually fly there we will have a habitable site already for us,

prior post on the robotic warfare seems to forget that without war and resource asset aquiring policy we would not have many of the things we take for granted, jets, rockets, medicines, materials and chemicals used for all this, computers and internet, radar, microwave ovens, lasers,gps,sonar,cell phones,optical fiber,plutonium fuel cells, all this is driven first by war second by commercial industry and third by private sector innovation.

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10/25/2010 2:09 PM

So without war, things would be a lot slower and simpler around here? I've gotta remember this next time an elder person complains about all the technology around us. "Well, if you didn't have all your wars..."

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10/25/2010 10:38 PM

sad but true. war has definitely accelerated the development and testing of all technology. At the pinnacle of this trend is the capacity of technology to kill.

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