CHANGE you'd better think about

Another good friend of mine has relatives that work in factories in the Rust Belt.... that whole area of America that includes Ohio, Michigan, and other places where we used to make cars and steel and other manly things. The men are still there waiting for the factories to reopen and are still members of a Union that hates Japan, and Korea, and anywhere they make cars and the workers don't have a pay package of $75 per hour. Mired in the past with the expectation that everything will remain the same, these workers, and most of the rest of us most of the time, cling to our beliefs that even though the internet is moving at 186,000 miles per second, we can keep on keeping on in our daily lives assured that there will be lug wrenches or the equivalent business tools in the 22nd century.

We do everything the old way...and nowadays, the old way could mean "the way we did it last week." The rate of change not only changes the answers, it rewrites all the questions. Our children are being trained in school for careers that won't be in existence when they graduate. We are living under the assumption that Social Security and Medicare are going to be there for us forever and knowing one language and not all that well is not going to be enough to get you to the finish line. Our institutions have failed us one after the other. Company pensions are disappearing. The government health plan, better known as "The Insurance Company Relief Act of 2010" is not going to do anything they promised, except cost more. And our bright bulb administrators in the educational system tell you that if they just had more money for books, and computers and new buildings everything would be all right.

If you are not scared, you should be. Learn Chinese so at least you can get a factory job in a few years when they own us. By then it will be cheaper to export industry to America because everyone in China will have an engineering degree and will be designing new products for a new world. We will still have lug wrenches, and Detroit will still look like Dresden after the bombing (That's World War 2 for you recent high school graduates who learned nothing in school because you were too busy texting one another on your Chinese cell phones.)

LINK:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II