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To: Jill who wrote (22971)	8/5/2004 11:57:35 PM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Jill, RE: "you seem a bit confused" I'll explain where there appeared to be a lack of acknowledgement for competitiveness in some of your statements. "It's only because of America's greatness" The above statement sounds very fixed to me. I'll call it a non-competitive statement. Whereas the following add-on would acknowledge the need for us to maintain a competitive behavior: "our desire to continually improve and maintain competitiveness in America." RE: "they were the American visionaries who changed the world" This statement seemed fixed in a time many years ago, which gave the impression it wasn't acknowledging today's competitive landscape: today's entrepreneurs are 50% immigrants. But with a cap of 65,000 on visas, many of those extremely intelligent entrepreneurs are starting their businesses elsewhere. RE: "This is to my eyes the best country in the world bar none" This is a non-competitive statement. If we're the best in all dimensions, how come we're seeing our majors going overseas? As well as our startups? We need a wake up call. RE: "you (ralph) regularly attack this country. Not worth my time." Not a competitive statement, though I can definitely see why you lost your patience with him after poking around some of his posts. His posts were darn rude and you repeatedly asked him to be more polite. RE: "Ralph, there you go again talking about "most Americans" etc. What do you think gives you the right to keep posting ...generalizations about Americans" The above concept conflicts with the following position below, though the statement above is competitive because it asks a question: "many other Americans, are tired of those who bite the generous hand" The above statement isn't competitive. If we shut our ears to how we can be better, we've closed off one channel to be more competitive. The major ingredient to competitiveness is to foster dialogue and polite criticism or self-criticism. (Though can definitely understand you were simply trying to reduce the impoliteness.) RE: "how terrible Washington must be, how bad Americans are, etc?" I felt really horrible when for the first time in my life, a Japanese woman recently said the USA doesn't treat women business leaders well. It's one thing if it's said here by Americans, but it's another thing if an outsider says it. I had a similar reaction as yours (in my head), but bit my tongue and asked her why. Her reasoning was enlightening, especially considering Japan is the type of place where 4 star hotels give 4AM "massages" (yeah, right.) RE: " You're right about the transfer of wealth, I think, but we are kind of like lobsters slowly being boiled" This is probably the sentence I reacted to the most. It's not competitive. It sounded like we should passively sit back and allow ourselves to be boiled like lobsters. I don't know about you, but I'm not letting that happen to my country, to whatever best way I can contribute. Allow me to express my feelings here - it sort of annoyed me a fellow citizen wouldn't convey a go-fix it attitude, particularly since you're an intelligent person whose other posts I like. RE: " I am not talking about staying competitive" Which is exactly what I had issue with. My reaction reflects my concern our country has gotten too complacent, especially when I look at our govt's policies and approach in handling international business affairs. Or how we as a country aren't demanding to make our average schools as competitive as the best in Asian countries, which we need to do, due to the student volume disparity. Even our best schools fall behind some of the best Asian schools in mathematics, for sure. Regards, Amy J