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yf@ziplip.com (Your Friend) wrote in message news:<be064478.0402050829.5fce17bf@posting.google.com>...
> http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/maney/2004-02-03-maney_x.htm

There are several problems with banking on innovation being the next
wave of growth jobs for Americans:
1. Innovation, by its nature, is unpredictable.  The invention process
is one of random bursts of insight, followed by a ton of refinement. 
One doesn't know where it will come from at all.  To say this is going
to offer salvation for the American economy and employment is highly
presumptive.  It is even presumptive to assume that there is going to
be some magical new industr appear and fix all the ills.
2. Most people are NOT innovators.  A lot of people don't have this
temperment.  To presume this is the future for America is to condemn
America to a stratification of minimum wage and 7 figure individuals. 
Sure, the innovation, workaholic, and entrepreneurial individuals will
make 7 figures, but what about the solid working person who can hold
down a basic blue color or white color job, and has a family to tend
to?  Well, I guess the United States WON'T need to have solid families
with fathers present.  Let's reduce the birth rate to zero or
negative.  Have fun being a world power with this.
3. You need to have a properly funded education system, with students
who do well in math and science to do this.  Have you checked where
the United States ranks in this area?  It isn't pretty.

Yes, there can be all this magical thinking, with hopes in "Free
Enterprise" bailing everyone out.  But good luck wagering on it.

Come to think of it, how did the United States become a superpower? 
Wasn't it through the use of cheap labor and abundant resources, with
a few entrepreneurs thrown in the mix?  A ton of immigrants gave the
United States a bunch of industrial muscle.  Who knows where people
would of been had it not been for the New Deal and labor unions.

- Richard Hutnik