Thoughts while stuck in traffic-
I can’t take thinking about the knuckleheads in our government…. Of both parties!
Watching BO talk on TV was unsettling, since the man doesn’t seem to want to ever discuss anything without an electronic crutch (like a teleprompter, or like last night a BIG Screen in back of the room with his speech on it. So that leads me to thinking about …
Who makes the circuit boards the government uses? I mean if the Chinese are, doesn’t that compromise our security? (Remember, I’m in a car going 8 mph in traffic)
Military strategists are concerned that declining U.S. manufacturing capacity for a relatively old technology — printed-circuit boards — could slow the planned shift to network-centric warfare. A key military requirement is for rugged boards that must perform under extreme conditions. PC-boards are being used by DoD in increasingly sophisticated ways to connect active and passive components. These applications are expected to grow further as networked operations expand.
DoD noted that U.S. pc-board production in 2006 was just less than 10 percent of estimated global revenues compared to 42 percent in 1984.
OK, now explain who is making most of the circuit boards then?? For now the DoD is counting on their own plants and TTM Technologies in California (San Diego, Santa Clara) and Stafford CT.
This makes me wonder- are there any American TV’s anymore.
I know as a kid there were about 9 companies, then eventually it was down to RCA and a couple others, then…gone. Even our family favorite Curtis Mathes seems to be mostly a furniture company now, selling foreign made TVs and Blu-Ray players
Oddly enough, SyntaxBrillian (headquartered in Tempe AZ) make TVs in California…yeah, in Ontario. The supposedly only Asia component is the flat panel that is made by them in China…the circuits and other components are made here(including the plastic cabinet)
“The Ontario, California LCD and LCoS™ facility is the second major production and assembly facility opened by Syntax-Brillian this month. On Oct. 16, 2006 the company announced the opening of a 30,000+ sq. ft. LCD TV production facility in Nanjing, China, with a projected output of 300,000 units annually for the Asian market.”
Syntax Brilliance (BRLC) has recently reported their plant in Ontario, California is gearing up to double production, as this plant has in the past been limited to 200,000 units per year and will increase up to 500,000
This was the only one I could find, thought there are other “made” here…but consist of almost all overseas made components..
Why are child births becoming more and more to unwed women, and at what age??
Back in 2006, the percent of unwed mothers having children was around 30-35%. 3 years later, we're at 40%.
I guess I can believe in that change…oops
Is it any wonder why I have watched the movie Idiocracy several times…I think it’s a primer on America in the near future.
I just can't get how government types can think that we can maintain a strong economy without producing products. This business that we have converted to a service economy is bunk. That stuff was being done anyhow, even when we had product production. Now, even services have been outsourced. The jig is up---now that we have no economy, practically. The production is gone; the jobs (service or manufacturing) are gone, and now the greedy companies themselves are beginning to go under. IT ALL backfired! We're screwed---speaking of which: when kids are raised as so many are now, with the thought that they will always have, they give insufficient thought as to consequences of their unwise actions. Well, with no jobs, they are finding out that there is no basis upon which to support families. Unfortunately lots of guys see that AFTER knocking some poor young woman up, and probably too many unmarried women just don't see that when the going gets tough, Lothario will sure get going ... the Hell away from there!
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