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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (12225)	7/26/2004 1:14:30 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The use of the word "half" does not always indicate 50%. When people say half baked, it doesn't mean 50% baked. When people say half of us...it does not imply 50%...it means there is a significant quantity of people. There are a significant number of people with no, little or inadequate health insurance. I never implied 50%...those are your words. Sure the Chinese may have learned to make chips, but the Bush administration will not allow the Yuan to float. Thus tying the Yuan to the dollar directly. This amounts to a drain on our economy and a boon to the trade deficit. And yes the Indians can do programming. But what that means is that we need to stay ahead of the curve. We need better programmers, better chips. In fact we need to be developing the technologies that make those chips and software obsolete. Yet we do not invest in education. We do not encourage development of new technologies. And as the information age goes forward technology will continue to change more rapidly. When China and India start developing the next generation of technology, then we know for sure that we have lost our leadership position in the world, and Bush's lack of leadership and foresight will be the reason for it. Orca